If the earth is young, God created evidence of it being old.

This debate is about the religious doctrine of Young Earth Creationism (YEC), whereby some people believe that the Bible says that the earth was literally created about 6,000 years ago. I am not in this debate arguing that that doctrine is necessarily false. I am arguing that if it is true, then when God created the earth he put in place a vast amount of evidence that the earth is many millions of years old. Moreover, the evidence is well coordinated, in that diverse evidence points to a consistent time line for events in the earth's history. The evidence cannot be explained by scientists having made just a few key mistakes. The scientific evidence that the earth is old includes: 1. The formation of sandstone. 2. The formation of limestone. 3. The formation of caves in limestone by carbonic solution. 4. The formation of stalactites and stalagmites in caves, by evaporative deposition. 5. The slow erosion of sandstone by stream flooding. 6. Slow erosion by the freeze-thaw cycle. 7. The slow weathering of hard minerals like granite. 8. The mineralization of petrified wood. 9. The sculpting of mountains and valleys by glaciation, missing in the tropics 10. Slow erosion by inflorescence. 11. Sedimentation in layers in which less-dense and more dense materials alternate 12. The formation of ice cores showing several hundred thousand seasonal cycles 13. The building of volcanic islands 14. Continental drift evidenced by matching coasts and mineral characteristics 15. The rise of mountains by continental subduction. 16. The decay of radioactive materials, including, for example, Argon39/Argon40 that does not depend upon knowing the original amount of an isotope. About twenty independent isotopes pairs having different half-lives support a common time line. 17. The rings indicating the seasonal growth of coral 18. The many reversals of the earth's magnetic fields as captured in lava flows 19. The visibility of light from stars that are more than 6,000 light years distant 20. The plastic folding of the earth's crust shown in rock layers There are many more, but this establishes the point. It's conceivable that scientists could have made mistakes in believing that one or two pieces of evidence imply an old earth, but the amount of evidence is so substantial that it is not conceivable that mistakes were made in every case. Moreover, one time line is consistent with all the evidence, so it would not just be having made dozens of mistakes, but having the errors consistently support a common time line. I will grant that it is possible that the earth was created 6,000 year ago. In fact, it could have been created last week, provided the creation included all the evidence of a much older earth. The resolution affirms that possibility. What the resolution accomplishes is to preserve the study of geology and important aspects of physics, chemistry, and astronomy, which otherwise would have to be discarded as baseless. Geology in particular would have to be almost completely abandoned. Yet geology has proved to be a useful science, related not only to the history of the earth in general, but for mineral exploration, for dealing with volcanoes and earthquakes, and for reconstructing climate history. The resolution is affirmed.