[native texan]

Just my opinion: God can create anything at any age He chooses. That's why you can't take the carbon dating literally...He can make a 10,000 year old rock, or a 30,000 year old rock at the same instant. He created Man as an adult,not as a baby. Dinosaurs were probably really roaming the earth, but he COULD have just put the bones in the ground to see what Man would make out of it. All of this stuff doesn't have to evolve, it can just be. What we see darkly now, one day we will see with understanding.....

[ChuxsterS]

Just my opinion: God can create anything at any age He chooses. That's why you can't take the carbon dating literally...He can make a 10,000 year old rock, or a 30,000 year old rock at the same instant....

And populate the universe with copious evidence that it's a very, very old place?

True, God could do that. God could have created a universe a mere 6,000-odd years ago, and created it indistinguishable, on day one, from a universe that was billions of years old.

But wouldn't that make God a liar, trying to ensnare man with false yet irrefutable evidence of a past which had never occurred?

I don't believe God can be a liar. I think that the convincing evidence he left pointing to a very, very old universe means that it is an ancient universe, and that a literal-minded reading of Genesis is wrong.

[Doctor Stochastic]

But your argument also equally well supports the theory that the Universe was created Last Thursday. How do you then distinguish your beliefs from Last Thursdayism?