Ancient appeance not equal deception

Perhaps a young-Earth Creationist could answer.

Robert Carnegie has swayed me to reject the premise that if the
gods made the young universe to look ancient, logically one cannot
assume they did so to deceive life forms inhabiting the universe.
The gods could have totally unfathomable reasons for doing so, or
(perhaps much more likely) they had no choice in the matter and
that a working / properly-functioning universe requires it to be
built with parts that appear billions of years old.

Or more clearly, one cannot assume the gods meant to deceive us;
therefore one cannot automatically include "deceiver" as part of
the gods' personality traits.

But what *DOES* it say about the gods, if they did create the
observably ancient universe recently? If "intelligent design" is
"science" (pause for laughter) then this "science" is the correct
venue for this question.

If the gods had no choice but to make the universe appear billions
of years old when it is not, that means the gods are not
all-powerful. If they did have a choice, why did they choose to
make the universe appear billions of years old? Why make Earth
appear to be 4.55 billion years old when it is only 10,000 or
20,000 years old--- if intent to deceive is ruled out?

If Earth is ancient but life is only a dozen thousands of years
old, why did the gods make Earth so that life on Earth appears to
be over one billion years old--- if deception is ruled out?

Note again I formally reject the deception hypothesis. If the gods
did not mean to deceive, and if they are all-powerful, how does
one explain the temporal contradiction?


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