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These types of arguments are always meaningless. For example, if an omnipotent God could create a universe in six days couldn't there also be data which God designed so that our scientists would misinterpret the evidence to make them think the earth is older?

I don't wish to argue the merits of this. It all comes down to faith. So far our "scientists" have not created a universe in the labortory so their "theory" of evolution also rest on shakey grounds.

For God to creat false information to throw us off... implicates large theological problems... How can one trust God, who seems to be arbitrary or how can you trust His words if He intentionally "create" false information "lie"...hmmmmm

God is faithful and truthful, I lay my life at his foot.
Thank you God.

You have "faith" that God designed data "so that our scientists would misinterpret the evidence to make them think the earth is older?" Weird.

I have faith that God loves me and wants me to know the truth, which is that the Universe is about 15 billion years old, the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth evolved.

No, God has no reason to trick me, and I have nothing to explain away.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:28a
And God said, "Beware the false data that I have created to confuse the heathen, atheist evilutionists."

/sarcasm

So far our "scientists" have not created a universe in the labortory so their "theory" of evolution also rest on shakey grounds.

What does creating a universe have to do with evolution?

Let's get really weird for a moment...

What if it were possible to go back in time* and have doctors give Adam a complete physical exam the day after he was created? Would they determine his age to be one day old? 20 years old? 30? 40? Since Adam was not created as an infant (i.e., did not follow the normal progression from a few cells to full adulthood), how would that affect his biological age?

Scientists have theories about how planets are born, and virtually all of them have in mind big balls of lifeless, molten rocks that harden and develop over millions and millions of years. (Naturally, they have no way of proving this or recreating it, but let's just give them the benefit of the doubt for now.) What if the earth wasn't "born"? What if it didn't go through the process one would expect a new planet to follow? What if the earth, like Adam, was created a bit older?

Just one of those things to ponder - like wondering whether Adam and Eve had belly buttons or not!

*Of course, the whole time travel thing wouldn't work. I mean if it were even possible, the doctors attempting to go back would probably be 15 billion years off in their calculations! ;-)

>For example, if an omnipotent God could create a universe in six days couldn't there also be data which God designed so that our scientists would misinterpret the evidence to make them think the earth is older

So you're saying maybe God lies to us? No wonder skeptics look at YECism and say "This is why we don't believe in the Bible."