Current Events > How do you feel about this YEC's argument for why the universe appears old?

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https://www.challies.com/articles/why-does-the-universe-look-so-old-3/

The universe looks old because the Creator made it whole. Accordingly to a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2, God did not create a universe that began in an infant or primordial state before maturing over billions of years, but a universe that actually began in a state of maturity. When it was still young it already looked mature because this was God’s design. Indeed, this was the case with the first human being. “When he made Adam, Adam was not a fetus; Adam was a man; he had the appearance of a man. By our understanding that would’ve required time for Adam to get old but not by the sovereign creative power of God.” Adam and Eve were created whole, mature, grown up, and were placed in a garden that was also whole, mature, and grown up. “The garden was not merely seeds; it was a fertile, fecund, mature garden. The Genesis account clearly claims that God creates and makes things whole.” There is our first answer, that the universe looks old because God created it to look old. This was design, not deception, just as was the case for Adam, the human being who had no history, no parents, no infancy, no childhood.
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Sounds like, "believe me guys, I just know this".
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Does it say in the Bible that Adam wasnt created as a fetus?
No?
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*didn't read it*

It's bad.
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Foppe posted...

Does it say in the Bible that Adam wasnt created as a fetus?
No?

excellent counterpoint.
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We got this whole thing of creating everything in six days, but nothing says that Adam and Eve speaks during those days.
And let us remember 2 Peter 3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day., which means that God could have spent a lot of more time creating everything, like a fetus of something that would evolve to Adam.
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it's sort of interesting to think that God may have created the Earth only 6000 years ago, but gave it a billion year history.

which of course the guy says isn't deception, but I don't see how that's not inherently deceiving.
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How can we see the lights from stars that are more than 6000 lightyears away?
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