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Now, with that analogy, if I don't tell you the balls actual age and you go away thinking it is old, have I deceived you?
Under that analogy, letting someone believe the lie is the same as lying.
Unfortunately, your analogy does not fit. The universe could not have the appearance of such age without an intentional deceit. Everything we see is evidence of the extreme age of the Earth, but scuffing and mud on a football doesn't really make the football look older. It may look used, dirty, and certainly not new, but not old.
You know what does make things look older? Age. Things can be made to look older, but nothing looks much older than it actually is without being caused to look that way.
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