The interesting thing is, as it pertains to this general story, that it's not really a God-made-it-look-old (as in to trick us) issue, but that's a side effect.

The interesting thing is, as it pertains to this general story, that it's not really a God-made-it-look-old (as in to trick us) issue, but that's a side effect. When I think about the simulation hypothesis, I picture Skyrim. You boot it up, load the maps, etc, and you see a picture perfect (on the PC anyway) world that looks millions of years old. Mountains are weathered. There are pre-existing historical races that died out thousands of years ago. Portions of the terrain are covered in deep snows. There's rain; it might even be raining randomly when you spawn from a save. Bethseda isn't lying when they make the place old. It's that way because it has to be. Who knows, our reality for God could be the same thing? Picture the Wind Fish from Link's Awakening. Whole island with people, places and attack chickens. It was a simulation in the mind of the Wind Fish.