That the light that takes billions of years to reach earth from distant stars, much less galaxies was put into place all at once several thousand years ago just to mislead us...
That makes sense... The universe is clearly billions of years old. Dinosaurs once roamed earth. I don't believe God is the great deceiver.
The only ones that are deceived are the fools that wish to believe the Earth is old. All of the observed evidence fits the young earth perfectly.
It is sad. Rather than preaching Christ, some get sidetracked into bizarre timelines. I maintain that some sincere Christians get sidetracked into matters that are not fruitful (I am often guilty of the same thing). But I have been told that I cannot be a Christian if I think the universe is ancient.
God isn’t a deciever. That’s why that argument against the age of the earth and God creating it is the epitome of a strawman if I ever saw one.
The fact that that stupid argument keeps getting trotted out by the evos shows a major disconnect in their reasoning ability.
Since the position that God put stuff there just to deceive mankind is just so ludicrous, then clearly it is wrong and should be discarded for the crap it is. Then one needs to look for other reasons that things seem to indicate an older earth than making up some kind of nonsense argument and defeating it, thinking that you’ve proved something to your opponents.
You’ve proved something alright, but not what you’re thinking.