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My #1 favorite argument for atheism can be summarized like this: "clearly there can't be an omnipotent omniscient and time-independent God because, if there were, he'd do things my way." How could we even begin to speculate on what a created Earth would be like? We have no clue how to even begin thinking about how a God would make a planet, or how a God would wrap up the work. How old would marble seem after being created by divine forces?

If we look to religious text for clues, it isn't any help. Have you read that Genesis description? Watching the creation of our planet would be the most majestic and mind-bending thing we could imagine, but the Bible gives an account that lasts maybe 5 pages and contains zero real details. It reads like an abstract, when, as scientists, what we really want is a materials and methods section.

One may ask why scripture contains so little detail when it comes to process. From a theological perspective, it's probably because God knew that the real details our way over our heads. Until such time as God gives us further details directly (which, if scripture has any credibility, should not be out of the question for believers,) I advise against fixating on any paradigms of divine methodology.

There is absolutely no way that anyone can either prove or disprove that a God created the Earth by thinking about it, because any thinking requires assumptions about what God would or would not do. When we're capable of creating our own Earths, then maybe we can have a healthy debate.

In the mean time, there's plenty of good science to do, not to mention plenty of good soul-searching.