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It kinda strikes me as funny how we decide what is preposterous and what is not, only according to our habit of assessing some absolute value to time. To us it might sound like madness, but it seems a lot more simple for God who 'invented' time, to manipulate it to his heart's content, than for him to do something ACTUALLY logically self-contradictory, such as lend a small portion of absolute sovereignty (i.e. autonomy) to mere creatures, causing them to be self-caused first causes.
Not to demean your pov, I'm just saying it strikes me as funny. But as to your point: Why is it preposterous, really?
I wouldn't say that he created it to look old. I'll go even more preposterous and say he can make is actually old, and that, instantaneously, if he wishes. He is, after all the maker and owner and engineer and the very source and essence of, Time.
We are using our terminology and our understanding, to treat this subject that is quite a ways beyond us. Not that we shouldn't treat it, but we don't know what we are talking about.
The reason it is preposterous is because it is not how everything that God created works. Things that are finite come into existence, hang around for a period of time, and through a process of deterioration leave existence. God set the precedent for finite creation. He set the precedent and left tell-tale signs so we would not be mistaken. It is true, we could posit the premise of the OP and say that God is deceiving us. That is a novel approach, but it tells against the evidence and smacks of blasphemy. More to the point, such a premise is ad hoc. It's trying to make things fit a preconceived narrative, instead of letting God's creation speak. Creation has been subjected to futility and the bondage of decay (not just the appearance thereof) by its Creator in hopes it will be set free.
Besides, the passage quoted isn't saying that it simply appears old. That much is clear.
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