Both can be true, right?
You can read a book, be on page 1, minutes into the story, but the book has thousands of years of history that got it to that point?
(I do NOT believe the 6000 silliness, but there is a credible defense of it.)
If an entity could create the universe, that same entity could just as easily create the universe with a history as to how it got to the starting point.
Picture the universe as a “Matrix-style” computer simulation created by an all-knowing programmer. It would have the rules for running, but it would also have a set of initial conditions.
So, the initial conditions make the simulation appear to be 4 billions years old, but the simulation has only been running 6000 years.
(I believe NONE of this.)
IOW, it's not a credible defense. :^)
“So, the initial conditions make the simulation appear to be 4 billion years old, but the simulation has only been running 6000 years.”
Descartes ruled that out when he showed that God is not an evil deceiver.