“As I mentioned on the CMI website earlier,3,4 I have been eagerly awaiting the results, because in 1984 I made scientific predictions—based on Scripture—about the magnetic fields of a number of planets, including that of Mercury.5 Spacecraft measurements6,7 have validated three of the predictions,”
Oh please. When a probe is sent out like this, scientists already have a prediction on what the results will be and usually they are right on or very close. Anybody can take the scientists predictions, pick and choose and twist scripture to create some rational to predict the same thing, then sit back and pretend they proved something.
If the universe is only 6000 years old, God went to a LOT of trouble to make it look otherwise. There are stars over 100 million light years away, and we can only seem them because they were there 100 million years ago when they first emitted the light that now reaches us.
No doubt the speed of light is an illusion or a tool of the devil or whatever. All these fanatics do is butcher science and discredit religion. I do not understand people who get fixated on one obscure idea -- the universe is 6000 years old -- the earth is at the center of the universe -- people and dinosaurs co-existed -- and they are obsessed with this one idea until it is virtually the sum of their religion. They reduce Christianity to a crude cult of numerology. In their own way they are almost as bad as the agnostic churchmen who reduce religion until it is almost nothing.
I don't know how old the universe is. And since I've never created one, I guess I can't provide a hypothesis for what it would look like when it was finished - how old it would appear when complete.
But then again, how much trouble is it to create a human being? Harder than creating an "old" universe?
How old would this Adam have appeared? I'm guessing that he wasn't created a young boy - but rather a mature man. Why not then a mature universe?
The bottom line is that if your going to allow for a creator, you have to give him complete license.
In the end the WHY (all the trouble) may have to do with the idea that the righteous will live by faith (the Bible is pretty clear that the wicked demand a sign).