Multiple Independent Confirmations “have convinced almost all scientists that the earth and universe are extremely old.” The evidence is impressive, but can we believe what we see?
False Appearance of Old Age — Why and How Usually, theories proposing a young earth also propose a young universe in which everything is less than ten thousand years old. But light is reaching us from distant stars, so far away that it would take billions of years for the starlight to reach us. How can this occur in a young universe? Most proponents of a young universe claim that God created the universe as a mature creation with appearance of age that makes some features (or all features) appear to be extremely old even though the actual age is young. According to this theory of apparent age (AA), God provided a suitable environment for the first humans by creating a universe that would be immediately functional, with mature humans (not helpless newborn babies), complete ecosystems, our energy-giving sun, and starlight created “in transit to us” instead of being released from a shining star. If God was not interested in the pre-human history of nature, He could decide to skip it, just
