Well, what if God doesn't play fair though? What if God created the entire universe in 1952, complete with all those then living - all created in an instant, with full and convincing memories! Complete with those then dead - all the way back to the dinosaurs, created in an instant, sitting in the ground with the exactly accurate carbon-14 decay signature! Complete with the artifacts and remnants of all the histories that never actually happened, but absolutely 100% identical to what they would look like if they had!
It's a monstrous idea, but for an omnipotent being it'd be trivially easy to pull it off. That's the problem with omnipotence - it's not even slightly fair! Such easy and infinite wool, to pull over our poor little finite eyes. For an omnipotent being it would be a SNAP!
All we can see is what we're living in the middle of. You don't have to concede the existence of God, but to argue as if you're entertaining the notion, and then say "God couldn't do this" or "God couldn't do that" - because of the evidence! - that's silly! All of that evidence was manufactured to exact specification. We just need to decide what we want to do about it.
The universe was a fake. A conspiracy of One, engineered by a single yet infinite mastermind! That devious, devious fellow.
It's gone far enough. We have to stop Him.
It's a monstrous idea, but for an omnipotent being it'd be trivially easy to pull it off. That's the problem with omnipotence - it's not even slightly fair! Such easy and infinite wool, to pull over our poor little finite eyes. For an omnipotent being it would be a SNAP!
All we can see is what we're living in the middle of. You don't have to concede the existence of God, but to argue as if you're entertaining the notion, and then say "God couldn't do this" or "God couldn't do that" - because of the evidence! - that's silly! All of that evidence was manufactured to exact specification. We just need to decide what we want to do about it.
The universe was a fake. A conspiracy of One, engineered by a single yet infinite mastermind! That devious, devious fellow.
It's gone far enough. We have to stop Him.
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Mind you, I don't think He did what you just described (creating the world in 1952, complete with memories), but of course it's impossible to disprove, like many other ridiculous things.
With help from me sometimes! If I happen by in time.