Well, this is really one of my arguments against YEC: Of course an omnipotent god could have created Earth in 7 days, 6,000 years ago, with marsipuals, sediment shelves, fossils, old starlight and all. In fact he/she/it could have done it in 7 seconds, 5 minutes ago.
The few YECs who actually understand this are usually thrown a bit off by it.
Indeed the almighty could be putting us through a simulation. Or this: there really was a Creator God fitting the Yahweh model. He, truly a fatherly male type, got a wild hare one "day" to have a Big Bang. However, upon simulating in His own infinite mind the outcome, and arriving at the predictable result--that the creation of evil would invariably ensue--discovered a paradox of His own simulated making. "I can not make a world that has both free will and also remains perfectly devoid of evil. I therefore am limited." At which time God melts down, explodes, goes singular, initiating the Big Bang, plus that fuzzy pseudo virtual realm we call consciousness, which mysteriously inhabits animal brain stems and spreads into the cortex and takes over--by both Godly and ungodly mechanisms that are utterly unknowable to us. Thus, here we are, figments of His imagination, His last vestiges, so to speak. And it is through some primal hard-wired memory of this that ancient myth makers have constructed stories of the god who became the universe, and the others who came up with the notion that we are created in His image and likeness.
And 7 seven days was amenable to the boys down at the Elks lodge who wanted Saturdays off for fishing, so God, in His infinite goodness saw this and wished it true and it became true, so the goatherds out in the wasteland of central Canaan became magically aware of this, which we call divine inspiration, and so they spun it into the rest of their yarn, and all was good and proper and just, and this is why we get Saturdays off.
But really all of this took place within one Planck time (5.4 x 10[sup]-44[/sup] sec), which is another story.
I might settle for this if I were and Elk or a Moose or a Caribou or even a Reindeer, but it would be no different for me to do so than it is for anyone else to settle for any other invention of how things actually work.
I would like to see a YEC or anyone else who might rise to the challenge to come here and and address the following:"Prove God existed within the first Planck time of the Big Bang." Then we can move on to discover how goo turned into prokaryotes and a billion years or so of stuff like that until the Great Oxygenation Event, the Pre-Camrian Explosion, Porifera, and everything up until ungulates, and finally cave-people, painting bison on their walls because either they were tired of the mauvre decor or else they were trying to remember some primal hard-wired memory of what was really some guys God saw sitting in a rickety fishing boat on a lazy Saturday afternoon passing around cans of Schlitz.
So that's my challenge. Let's get over some of the hangups and go from goo to man in, say, the next 100 posts, or whatever. No holds barred. And I will ante up with the following: Darwin was on top of his game WAY more than the authors of Genesis, simply because his ideas didn't come to him in a dream.
