I am an atheist & I could provide a better argument for a recently created universe than the theories used by Creationists. Logic is not one of their best abilities.
My argument is based on the concept of god having created a
mature Universe. This concept is as follows.
When god created the universe & the Garden of Eden, there were trees which appeared to be perhaps a hundred years old, even though they had just been created.
If you cut one down & polished the stump, you could count the tree rings & might decide that they indicated the age of the tree that had just been created.
Similarly, the mature universe contains all sorts of evidence of extreme age, even though it was recently created.
When created, there was light from distant stars created at the same time & indicating that it had been traveling for thousands/millions/billions of years.
If I believed in the mature Universe concept, I would choose to believe that it was created last week or perhaps when I was ten years old.
All this evidence does not indicate that the universe was created eons ago
: It indicates that god is a practical joker. He & his heavenly host are chuckling about how he fooled the unbelieving scientists.
