Smitty, you are right that God is concerned with our faith, not our intelligence, and besides I would never say that you are less intelligent than many others on the forum.

The problem is this: There are tons of different scientific observations that all confirm that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Of course God could have make it just looking this way, but that would mean that he intentionally deceives all scientists, and does this make any sense to you? Not to me.

God not only speaks to us through the Bible but also through His creation. The difference is that the universe was directly created by God, but the Bible was written down by fallible humans.

So it is much more likely that there is a mistake in the Bible, or in your interpretation of the Bible, than a mistake in God's creation.