I'm a YEC. Challenge me.

[Esquilax]

After that, here’s the logic:
1) In His word, he created animals in a single day. Each fully mature animal would have had the same actual age, yet differing appearances of age: Conclusion: not only does He demonstrate creating things with apparent ages, but even differing apparent ages.
2) God also created the starry hosts (the universe).
3) As we examine the universe, we see varying evidence for its age. Not JUST ~14 billion. Some entities show indications that the universe CANNOT be 14 billion years old.
4) The varying ages of aspects of the universe can therefore be dealt with by applying that principle from item 1).

So there you have it: age of the universe logically solid within the creation model.

Well, okay: you've woven a fiction, using mostly magic with no motivation for the spellcaster in question, and no reason to think it's true. Great.

Now where's your evidence that this actually happened?

Because without that, what have you got? An ad hoc, just-so story to retrofit present day evidence to a story, just to preserve your beliefs. You might as well just say that a space wizard farted on reality, and his cosmologically arcane fart gas caused everything to age a bunch.

At the moment, both claims have the same level of evidence. Care to add some more to yours?

Here’s the irony: although evolutionists criticize YECs for their ‘age of the universe’ logic flaw, the truth is, it’s actually a logic flaw for them, not us. How do you account for the scientific evidence saying the universe cannot be 14B years old?

Present this evidence, and we'll see. I'd enjoy a bit of research.