My friend Jaxon Washburn posted an important article containing 40 quotations from scholarly sources on whether Gen 1:1-2 teaches creation ex nihilo or ex materia and why:
Ex Materia or Ex Nihilo? Creation in Genesis 1:1-2
Ex Materia or Ex Nihilo? Creation in Genesis 1:1-2
This will be an important resource for LDS apologists.
For a fuller discussion on this central issue, see: