I knew that this was a possible answer and I was wanting someone to say
exactly this. Because if God created everything instantaneously, then why
didn't He do it in 4004 B.C or 2002 BC or 101 BC or yesterday afternoon? If
God created everything and made things look old, then how can we tell when
creation was? The argument is not a strawman because it was designed to
elicit exactly the possibility that your raised.
If God must save us from all our theological/scientific problems by creating
or fixing whatever the problem is, then why do we need science at all? Why
do we need to pay any attention to observational data? Maybe god created a
different number of laminae between the two tuffs that Buchheim studied? I
don't see an end to this type of game. It would be much simpler to just have
God do everything and then we are done with the creation/evolution issue
because there is no issue. What ever was done was done miraculously.
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm