You YECs keep making a lot of noise about believing God’s Word as written, but are you obeying God’s Word as written? In particular, are you obeying this?
13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly. — Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Any creation model, any interpretation of Genesis 1, any challenge to the scientific consensus that the age of the earth is 4.5 billion years or that evolution is a fact, MUST obey these verses. Any such challenge or doctrine of creation that does not obey these verses is not scientific, is not Biblical, and is not honest.
Do any of these claims of evidence for a young earth obey the Bible’s demands for accurate and honest measurement? From what I’ve seen, they don’t.
To claim that an “uncountable” number of evidences must all be counterfeit is the mother of all conspiracy theories.
Are you seriously trying to tell us that hundreds of thousands of professional scientists would all have collaborated together in tight collusion with each other to fabricate vast swathes of extraordinarily detailed and self-consistent evidence for 4.5 billion years of history that never happened, at the cost of trillions of dollars to their employers and the taxpayer? Are you seriously saying that none of the retired scientists, former scientists who had left the industry and no longer had any skin in the game, or Muslim scientists in Middle Eastern countries would be blowing the whistle on such a thing? Are you seriously trying to tell us that Wikileaks is complicit in it, and that investigative journalists—whose job it is to blow the gaff on shenanigans like that—are complicit in it too? Are you seriously suggesting that scientists working in other fields, competing against it for funding and government grants, would not be kicking up a stink about it either?
To suggest that such a vast conspiracy could possibly have a shred of a basis in reality would make NASA faking the moon landings, 9/11 being an inside job, MI5 being behind the death of Princess Diana, chemtrails, alien spacecraft in Area 51, and the US Navy covering up the existence of mermaids all look like child’s play by comparison. If this really could be happening, then it is difficult if not impossible to think of a conspiracy that could not.
I’m sorry, but conspiracies on that scale simply do not happen. It’s as simple as that.