Abstract
The question as to when God created the heavens and the earth, which I addressed briefly last time, remains the focus of attention for now because of an argument that has arisen again recently and is causing confusion. It is the argument, used by some young-earth creationists, that the universe was created with apparent, not real, age just as Adam was created in a "mature" adult state. One such creationist, a popular international speaker, presented this argument on a recent radio interview as the coup de grace to the old-earth view.