Hi mrsands,
When Jesus was dying on the cross he cried out to his Father, "Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing." He often said that we are ever hearing but never understanding. God has said that He will make foolish the wisdom of the wise.
You believe that God has 'manufactured' evidence of an old creation. I believe my Father and my Lord. We just don't understand. We are the ones who have 'manufactured' the evidence against God's word. God has plainly told us how and when He created this realm. We have manufactured evidence, that we have taken from what He has created, and used that to deny what God has fairly clearly and plainly told us. Paul warns us from this very practice in his letter to the Collosians.
God didn't provide us with any evidence other than His word. He merely created and things came to exist. We, because of our great wisdom, have studied what He has made and determined that there is evidence that what God has told us is not true. I will make foolish the wisdom of the wise.
Consider please that on the day that God scooped up dirt from the earth and formed Adam, that Adam was created on his first day of life as a fully grown and mature man. Any forensic scientist who would have studied Adam on day one would, based on all known evidentiary wisdom of man, denied that Adam had existed for less than 24 hours. He would likely have been dated, based on all the scientific and medical evidence that man has at his disposal as probably 20 or more years old. We do the same thing with the creation account. We take what God has created - apply man's wisdom - and voila' we calculate a date for the creation. We're just as wrong about the age of the creation as the forensic scientist would have been about the age of Adam.
Why? Because we think of ourselves to be wise. The truth is that Jesus was right, we just don't understand.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted