I GOT IT! I GOT IT! At least the answer to quite a bit of the delimna:

God was hanging around out there, all alone, for all of eternity past. Eternity past included what, had there been such a thing as time, would have been a bunch of millions of years of time. It got pretty boring. So he spent at least some of eternity past in a little hobby of creating

            FOSSILS!

Finally he came up with the notion of creating all this other stuff we know of, out of nothing.

But he discovered that he was just a little short of enough nothing from which to create everything he had in mind.

So he cleaned out his eternal closet, and stirred in enough of the fossil stuff to make up the difference.

So the fossil stuff is in fact millions of years old, but that simply has nothing to do with the age of the rest of what we know as the creation!