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And again, if your universe contains an all powerful God who would intentionally lie to His followers, is this not...

A) A vastly smaller God than the one who died for our sins, or...
B) A very poor way for Him to reveal his eternal, honest nature to Scientific People, who will merely use this blatent disception to decide that Christianity is no more than a myth.

I believe Old Nick, Mr. Scratch, the Dark One is the only one I have heard referred to as "the Father of Lies", and I wouldn't want to get put in the pen with the Pharasees who tried to ascribe the works of God to the devil...nasty results I hear! ;)

"...if your universe contains an all powerful God who would intentionally lie to His followers..."

"...who will merely use this blatent disception to decide that Christianity is no more than a myth"

As I read this post, I can't help but trip over the words "lie" and "blatent disception (sic)". I guess that seems to me to be a bit of a premature judgement. Your implication seems to be that if God can't present his creation to us in a form that any numbskull can immediately grasp and understand fully, then He is obviously trying diligently to deceive all of us, or play some cosmic joke. If you can assume for a moment that the biblical story of creation is true exactly as recorded, tell me, if you could examine Adam two minutes after he was created from the dust of the earth - how old would you say he was? My point is that God created mature specimans of all kinds. Would it not follow logically that the earth itself, as well as the whole universe would be created as a mature speciman?