Of course. Just like She made the starlight from beyond 6,000 light years away en route to make us think the Universe is bigger/older/more amazingly amazing than it really is. After all, She made Adam and Eve as fully grown adults and that PROVES it. (Bugger; I think I'm channelling NephilimFree now.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'