“The “strawman” is saying that God is a “trickster” for creating mature things in His creation.” God is NOT a trickster, and that’s why we cannot dismiss the evidence of very old fossils, because it would make God a trickster fabricating contradictions for fooling us.
Think about it. Who is doing the ‘brainwashing from birth’ and is it slightly possible you are mis-reading these signs?
Evolution is classical cognitive dissonance if you consider all the hurdles for life in th millions and billions of years - all the resources and Earth’s should be entirely spent.
Geologic origins were based upon uniformitarianism yet now many are shifting to catastrophism. Darwin said his theory completely falls apart w/o thousands upon thousands of transitional fossils. Fossils show that they were laid down quickly and buried not gradual processes.
Your authority for stating “very old” is what?
And the authority referenced by people saying young is what?