And that is one of the gaping plot holes of Christianity. If the god WANTED people to understand how the Young Earth happened, s/he could have left evidence of it, instead of hiding the evidence.
But, if you were a fraud, a human fraud, trying to make people believe a religion, how would you get it to happen? Would you place BELIEF without evidence as the highest moral value and test your marks constantly on it? Would you instruct them that believing an unseen, unevidenced miracle as an explanation is the holy and moral choice?
Look at the value of that. You can let them argue on your behalf, always telling them that they can say, “it was a miracle” and telling them that is a convincing argument and if anyone questions them on it, it is persecution as you foretold?
It’s a beautiful system. You can tell them anything and they will repeat it, fervently. Anything..
Including that it was a miracle that inbreeding didn’t cause deblitating mutations the way we actually see it happening.
You can tell them that animals trapped in a boat together won’t fight each other or starve of drown in their own shit, despite what we see in illegal zoos and the wild.
You can tell them that a global flood behaved differently than all other floods in how it deposited sediments.
You can tell them that a standing wave covered a mountain for 150 days, and they’ll say, yeah, that’s how I’ll answer that one!
You can tell them that The mountain changed its height by 10s of thousands of feet and temporarirly stored it in the oean trenches for 6 months, then moved it back, and left no trace.
You can tell them that genetic mutation was miraculously sped up after this “flood”, despite all evidence that it never was.
You can tell them that the earth is flat, and has corners, despite us orbiting around it.
You can tell them that humans populated the earth from the Middle East, despite the evidence that it was from Africa.
You can tell them that snakes and asses talk. Despite no one ever hearing that happen even a single time, ever.
You can tell them that the sun stood still in the sky for a day and they’ll believe it, despite no one else on the planet noticing.
You can tell them that witches exist and can do spells and they will kill women for you.
You can tell them that bread and wine can turn into flesh and blood. Not only will they believe you, because belief is holy, they’ll eat it.
You can tell them dragons existed, and that a man survived three days in a whale’s belly, and that a man called bears to attack children and they did.
YOu can tell them any manner of things, and, because you told them FIRST that the most holy thing they can do is believe you no matter what without question, they will accept all of it as more true than what their eyes can see in front of them.
Powerful wizardry of the psyche.