TheMusicMan, don’t want to get all technical on you, but I presume you know of Bertand Russel’s classic logical objection to your proposition. Also, and I know R’ Dovid Gottleib does attempt to answer this one, but quite why HKB’H would create a world that has deliberately misleading artifacts in it is a mystery. Please don’t talk about bechira, because we’d have the same bechira without it, plus bechira needs to be informed, which, if one has no access to any contrary information, it is not in such a case as there is no reason why the fossils and such should not be as old as they appear to be.
Your understanding of relativity also leaves a lot to be desired, and your application arbitrary.
I do not claim to understand any of the issues posed in this thread. Do I believe in dinosaurs? Well, they’ve definitely found bones and why shouldn’t they have? No idea if they really did. How old is the universe? No idea, wasn’t there at the time. I rely on the mishna in chagiga, perek 2, mishna 1. V’hamevin yovin.