I ' ll give you an example . ASASSN 15 lh is the brightest observed supernova . It occurred around 4 billion light years away and was observed in 2015 . If we only saw that event because the universe was created with age , it never actually happened . God creating that light would be a lie . Either we are wrong about the age of the earth , the distance or the speed of light . That event had to have actually happened . There are possible explanations for being wrong about distance to the star or the speed of light , but we can ' t just say that God created an old universe . Maturity speaks to development . Age refers to history . God created mature adults . However , even though he was created mature , Adam was not created 33 . He did not have a life history . The universe is the same . There can be no history before God created it . God could create it mature but not old .