Because he's a trickster! Haha! And if you fall for one of his tricks, he sends you to hell! For eternity!

The sanest worldview.

This is just last-thursdayism with extra steps

So when someone complains like this, you ask them if they are saying God can't create 300 million year old caves when he created the world?

It's to test the belief of christians of course.

“I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ’Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ’Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”

“Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”

(thank you for sharing the link. i hadn't read that one yet and it's very good <3)

There is also hand stencil art in places like Indonesia and Australia from 67,800 years ago

Well, that is definitely something I hadn't read before

Well I'm pretty sure you can boil ALL science down to a simple equation. 1 + 1 = 2. Then science is built up from that. Until 1 + 1 isn't equal to 2, I'll go ahead and trust in science.

While that is a valid argument for someone to make, I'd counter by saying that science is fundamentally built on the idea of empiricism and falsifiability.

With enough time, money, and the right equipment you could theoretically retrace every discovery science has ever made, from the stone age to the modern day Dr. Stone style.

Whereas the same really cannot be said for Religion. You can't test for God. You can't discover a miracle. There's no hard evidence, only belief.

Exactly. By the time you get to 6500 years ago, humanity has already been doing settlements and agriculture that we have archeological evidence of for 1000s of years.

Judging from the estimated timeline of humanity, 6500 years wouldn't even be long enough for us to migrate beyond the hunter-gatherer system and stone tools.

Our ancestors had 100,000s of years, and we only got to settlements and agriculture maybe 10-20K years ago.

You're very much right. Complex writing systems like we have now begin around 4000-5000 years ago. You can get closer to the right number with proto-writing systems, but unfortunately just barely within what the Christian faith allows.

I guess the Christians can take the W on that one, discounting all over physical evidence of humanity's existence beyond 6500 years ago.