[_ Old Earth _] The Age Of Earth

[Physicist]

The problem lies in the fact that we have no means of testing creation from nothing. If I gave you something that was created from nothing just moments ago I'm quite sure the evidence would be undeniable that there is age much greater than 2 minutes. After all, even the atoms had to come from the Big Bang anyway. In that case it's a simple exercise of manipulation of matter and not one of creation.
We can't observe creation as it occurs or has occurred. With that simple premise in mind one can only conclude it doesn't occur or ever has. Why? Because we can't see it happening. Not only that but we don't have the intellectual horsepower to even develop a rudimentary set of rules governing such an occurrence. And I seriously doubt we ever will. I can attempt to teach a chimp the theory of evolution but his mind just doesn't have what it takes. Likewise we are also limited even though we are presumably from the same family but just one rung up on the evolutionary ladder.

This does indeed sound like HRG's hypothesis that his cat created the Universe last Thursday. I cannot prove that what we take as Reality isn't simply a computer program like the movie, "The Matrix". However, by applying Occam's Razor, we need to describe Reality as we presently observe it and take that description as our working model. The model does not have net average energy being created (by the Uncertainty Principle and quantum fluctuations,it can be created for a short time).