Why did God get rid of the Trilobites?

[Ferrocyanide]

OK, how do they explain the fact that the farther away the star system is, the younger it is. It is possible to see star's beginning to form. It is possible to see vast hydrogen clouds collapsing onto a central region. It is even possible to view molecule hydrogen (H2) forming streams. These appear as dark lines since they absorb the radiation coming from behind them.

They don't (explain the fact). Any God that goes to the trouble of creating light beams in flight wouldn't hesitate to add various levels of galaxy maturity to complete the illusion. 

The fact is that people who believe the earth is 6000 years old are either uneducated and don't understand the contradictions and issues this introduces, never mind the science, or they haven't bothered to look at any of the evidence to the contrary because they are lazy. This makes for very awkward conversations. The level of "thought" required to exist in that bubble is extremely low. It also has the added side-benefit of making the "Explanation" accessible to everyone so that even uneducated / intellectually challenged people can adequately explain the way of life to their children. 

Religious people exist on a spectrum of acceptance of science - this ranges from completely literal interpretation of the bible (including the 6000yr "theory" and literal belief in the story of Noah) through highly educated Christians who follow science who bend their interpretation of the bible wildly to fit their broadened world view. If you talk to the latter, it becomes much harder to refute views with science as the person's world view has already been adjusted carefully to incorporate reality. For instance, I talked to a person who believed in evolution for all non-human life-forms (albeit guided by God rather than being purely based on natural selection), but believed that humans were "special" and "upgraded" to have a soul only a few tens of thousands of years ago by God from the mindless animals they were before. This viewpoint is much harder to challenge with evidence, since you can't disprove that God may have contributed to natural selection, and you then have to have a conversation about what makes humans "human" including a "soul" conversation which is highly philosophical. 

In my OP I was more thinking about the grass chewing type.

I suppose they can claim that the jewish god added various levels of galaxy maturity to complete the illusion.
But why would a god want to fool people?

There are multiple lines of evidence that says that the Universe/Earth combo is not 6000 y.
Again, the YEC type can claim that the jewish god created that illusion since it is omnipotent, omniscient, omnilocated.

I’m going to give pointers as to how to have a conversation with religious people, no matter what their level of acceptance of science is.
=========> You don’t have to read this stuff. You are suppose to know it already.

1. I can’t refute every wild claim. For example, if someone decided that their god is omnipotent, omniscient, omnilocated, then sure, he can do any magic trick he wishes.
Maybe this god made everything 1 ns ago.
I can’t tell the difference between a “natural universe” and “an artificial universe with such a trickster god playing games with me”.

2. We can explain to them what science has discovered and how the Genesis story of creation + the flood story doesn’t make sense.
For example, you can tell them that 1 male and 1 female will not have enough genetic variety (the offspring will not have enough genetic variability).
The believer can claim that their god does magic somehow to fix that issue.
Again, I can’t refute every wild claim such as that ^^^.
It is ad-hoc reasoning.
I do realize that the god is a magic key and it fits into every door of possibility and it unlocks them and fixes every problem (via its magic!).

3. You can ask them why does science not include such type of ad hoc reasoning: ie: The insertion of a magical being to explain parts of nature.
We know that that has been done in the past and eventually, when the real answer comes along via science, the old magical explanation gets tossed.
I have never seen the reverse happen.
I have never seen an aspect of science get tossed out and get replaced by god, fairies, demons, aliens.

“For instance, I talked to a person who believed in evolution for all non-human life-forms (albeit guided by God rather than being purely based on natural selection),”

==What this means is that this person, there is an aspect of nature that he fails to explain and so, he needed to insert god into his explanation to explain nature.
I think he is having trouble figuring out how new genes (or alleles) get invented.
He sees mutations of DNA to be strictly a detrimental event.

4. Which other professions deal with reality?
There are police investigators. Why is it that they don’t try to explain a murder scene with non-natural means? Perhaps the god came with a gun and shot that guy? Maybe it was a demon or fairy or alien?
What caused that car accident? (Police science)
What caused the failure of so many XBox 360s? (The domain of electrical engineering)
What caused that bridge to fail and collapse? (The domain of civil engineering or mechanical engineering)

Who created the COVID-19? Was it bat lady (The main researcher at the Wuhan lab)? Does she work for the jewish god and the god wanted her to spread this disease?

Note: My goal is to get people to think, such as your dude who sort of accepts Evolution theory and he thinks his god guides evolution.
I’m not saying that the god broke anyone’s XBox 360 or caused any car crashes.
The goal is to see how reasonable they are willing to be, how willing are they in accepting nature, etc.

“This viewpoint is much harder to challenge with evidence, since you can't disprove that God may have contributed to natural selection, and you then have to have a conversation about what makes humans "human" including a "soul" conversation which is highly philosophical.”

==That’s true but we can challenge them anyway and try to get them to consider other things. For example, car crashes, XBox 360s, this and that and police investigation and much more.
Why should biologists be the only ones to insert god into their investigations? Let’s all do it.
MacDonald’s : “I’m sorry Ma’am. You spilled coffee on yourself and burned yourself but that decision came from Satan. Please sue him. He heated your coffee and he spilled it on you.”