I agree, it is a matter of scale.
For all we know the Earth is a petri dish sized experiment done by beings that see it all as a 3" wide disc and they could have thousands of them on the go, or millions even. Talk about nano-tech! This is organic nano-tech, ironically the exact thing humans are aiming for right now on Earth. Tech first, then nano-tech, then "organic nano-tech". In other words the actual creation of life (as we know it) but on a tiny scale.
Let's face it, if our scientists knew how to make a 3" wide replica of the Earth, perfect in every single way - they would be doing it. We are of course nowhere near that level of technology right now, despite what most people think.
Perhaps a year here passes in one day "up the scale". So for the beings creating us it would only be a year in their life to cover 1650 AD to 2015 AD. One month for us would be two hours for them and so on.
If we were created like that then there's no way in hell billions of years are passing by 1:1 to the beings that created us. What on earth would they set it up like that for, they wouldn't be able to observe Jack Schmiddley! To me this can only mean one thing, we are fricken tiny.