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'''Last Thursdayism''', also Last Tuesdayism and Last Wednesdayism, is an [[atheistic]] parody which suggests that the universe was created last Thursday with the apparent age of an ancient universe.  It is a bizarre parody because no one disputes that contemporary laws of physics could not have been true at the moment of creation, or soon thereafter, rendering aging of the universe based on contemporary laws of physics problematic.

'''Last Thursdayism''', also Last Tuesdayism and Last Wednesdayism, is an [[atheistic]] parody which suggests that the universe was created last Thursday with the apparent age of an ancient universe.  It is based on the "Last Thursday" meme, used to describe events that have happened, but nobody knows, or cares for when they happened. It is a bizarre parody because no one disputes that contemporary laws of physics could not have been true at the moment of creation, or soon thereafter, rendering aging of the universe based on contemporary laws of physics problematic.

The fallacy in this parody is that it fails to recognize that the creation of something out of nothing will inevitably appear to the naive to be older than it actually is.  A creation of a man, for example, would appear to a naive observer as though he existed for decades.

The fallacy in this parody is that it fails to recognize that the creation of something out of nothing will inevitably appear to the naive to be older than it actually is.  A creation of a man, for example, would appear to a naive observer as though he existed for decades.