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It's more like this, is God lying if he created Adam as a fully formed adult male who looks to be about 25, but 5 years after creation he tells someone, "I created Adam 5 years ago?"
No, but only because he would have had to have created Adam in his 20s. If you drop a newborn in the woods, it dies. If you drop a toddler in the woods, it dies. If you drop a child in the woods, it dies.
Even if you drop a teenager in the woods, he'll eventually get himself killed. The universe doesn't need to be created with the decay isotopes of uranium surrounding uranium in only exactly the amount that you would get if the Earth were 4.5 billion years old. There's no reason for that, and yet, here we are. The world is full of instances like that. The universe appears ancient in ways that only make sense in the case that the universe is ancient, or there's a trickster god trying to convince us that it is.
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