Does Appearance of Age Render God a Deceiver?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@John_Harshman

He posits that God desires the evidence in nature to be ambiguous .

If so, then he’s doing a bad job of it, since all the evidence points to an old earth. There’s no significant ambiguity in that. The evidence is quite clear. I don’t understand that explanation either. My working hypothesis is that neither explanation makes sense.

I agree. This does not work terribly well on the age of the earth. But it still does not cast God as deceiver. For common descent and Reasons to Believe in an old earth framework, it might work better.