I never thought I'd say this but I'm a Young Earth Creationist
But not the biblical kind...
I believe that this dimension of
reality is a computer simulation
I call this simulation The Projection
I don’t believe that our dear lovely planet is many hundreds of million years old even though this is what the evidence (that we currently have) tells us
I think it is only a couple of hundreds of thousands of years old at the very most - in our time, who knows how time works outside The Projection...
I believe that the Omphalos Hypothesis is correct – that our planet has been
artificially aged so as to appear to be many hundreds of million years old
I believe that our planet is only as old as The Projection we inhabit
However, I believe that in the material reality that our simulated reality is based on the planets are in fact many hundreds of millions of years old
But the thing is, we cannot observe “base reality” – the outside world
We are trapped inside The Projection
So, we cannot make claims about the outside world, so it can only ever be a matter of belief or speculation
Is the universe outside The Projection the product of nature (in a Godless universe) and billions of years old or was it only willed into existence by a Supreme Being say 150,000 years ago? Or perhaps it was made by a Supreme Being but billions of years ago? That would be the third option!
We cannot tell,
we are like the occupants of Plato’s Cave in Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave
We can only know The Projection
And The Projection is only a fairly crude rendition of base reality
The physics engine it employs is only very basic, but it does the job
However: I think that reason dictates that the outside world is many billions of years old
The thing is though, we cannot ever know what is outside The Projection or who is doing the projecting
But I think we should live our lives as though the universe and our planet are billions of years old, I think that is what the
Over-Seers of The Projection want us to do, I believe I have a direct line to them and that we should treat our world as though it is however many billions of years old our best science tells us it is