The 'timing' of creation

Having read the lead article in this issue of TIME Magazine on the evolution controversy in the States, a possible alternative comes to mind. Could it be that God created, simultaneously and ex nihilo, everything in the cosmos fully complete and complex and, rather than giving it the mere appearance of age, gave it a genuine history, capable of being investigated scientifically? If so, then the timing of creation, from a human perspective at least, would not be a relevant consideration. Just a thought.