Visiting it is on my bucket list.
As I have said, I am YEC. I classify theistic evolution as damnable heresy. Having said that, If God created a star 4 billion light years away, and caused the light to instantly travel 4 billion light years, I an not going to tell a physicist he is wrong in dating 4 billion years. God makes a mature thing and we tell science they are wrong when they date it at the age God created it to be?
There are other physicists who have other explanations. It is not cut and dried. One YEC astrophysicist is Dr. Jason Lisle.
"Dr. Lisle graduated
summa cum laude from Ohio Wesleyan University where he double-majored in physics and astronomy, and minored in mathematics. He did graduate work at the University of Colorado where he earned a Master’s degree and a PhD in Astrophysics. While there, Dr Lisle used the SOHO spacecraft to investigate motions on the surface of the sun as well as solar magnetism and subsurface weather. His thesis was entitled “Probing the Dynamics of Solar Supergranulation and its Interaction with Magnetism.” Among other things, he discovered a previously unknown polar alignment of supergranules (solar convection cells), and discovered evidence of solar giant cells. He has also authored a number of papers in both secular and creation literature."
Dr. Jason Lisle
We know that the rate at which time flows is not rigid. And although secular astronomers are well aware that time is relative, they
assume that this effect is (and has always been) negligible, but can we be certain that this is so? And since stars were made during Creation Week when God was
supernaturally creating, how do we know for certain that distant starlight has arrived on earth by entirely
natural means? Furthermore, when big bang supporters use distant starlight to argue against biblical creation, they are using a self-refuting argument since the big bang has a light travel-time problem of its own. When we consider all of the above, we see that distant starlight has never been a legitimate argument against the biblical timescale of a few thousand years.
As creation scientists research possible solutions to the distant starlight problem, we should also remember the body of evidence that is consistent with the youth of the universe. We see rotating spiral galaxies that cannot last multiple billions of years because they would be twisted-up beyond recognition. We see multitudes of hot blue stars, which even secular astronomers would agree cannot last billions of years. In our own solar system we see disintegrating comets and decaying magnetic fields that cannot last billions of years; and there is evidence that other solar systems have these things as well. Of course, such arguments also involve assumptions about the past. That is why, ultimately, the only way to know about the past
for certain is to have a reliable historic record written by an eyewitness. That is exactly what we have in the Bible.
Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old?
Seriously, twenty years of development and activity will inevitably result in obvious signs of wear and tear. Brand new would exhibit no scuffs, no scratches, no dents, no dings, no callouses, no scars, no wear and tear, no aging effects inside or out.
