What I believe does not matter. The universe could be thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years old or infinity years old. Some theories hold that the big bang occurred at the end of the previous universe.
When this universe dies, it may end with a universe-wide black-hole which may cause another big bang. On top of that, there may be parallel universes, dimensions, timelines, and realities. Some suggest that each black-hole takes matter into another universe, perhaps even creating new universes.
A worm-hole may be a bending and a shortcut not through folded paper but through the dimensions of reality of space and time itself.
On top of that, if time is a dimension, then time may not be constant as mentioned by Einstein. How old something is can depend on how time functions.
Looking back into the gates of time, at the stars, at world history, at dinosaur bones, at all of these things through not observational but historical science, that is like a detective looking at a crime scene.
The detective may see the gun in the murder case and yet was the suspect framed or did a particular person do the killing with the gun?
Was the gun planted in the crime scene as you would see in Dexter Morgan and Ray Donovan? Was the fingerprints placed onto the murder weapon? A security camera would help determine whether the alleged suspect was framed or not.
Can we get a security camera for the universe or can we trust the alleged suspects of the universe? Are we sure that the universe was not framed?
RE: MAGNUM MYSTERIUM