Wouldn't it take starlight longer to reach the earth?

An often asked question is if the stars that we see in the night skies are really millions of light years away, how could we see their light if the universe were only a few thousand years old? Here is the dilemma:




The stars and earth are a long ways apart. We have wrapped a rubber band around the above star to simulate its light.




After the "short" amount of time the Bible allows, the light from the stars would not have enough time to travel the millions of light years required to be seen from the Earth. How can Creationists explain this? Easy, the answer lies in scripture.

Genesis says God created the "lights" in the sky so we could "mark seasons and days and years". For them to do this, they had to have been visible to Adam. So somehow, between day 4 and day 6 the light had to be visible. So God had to have made the "lights" (which would include stars, planets, etc) close enough to the Earth that their light was here. Like this:




"WAIT!" you say. "The stars aren't that close and if they were, we'd all be cooked. Explain that!" And in response I point you to any of the following verses: Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 51:13, Jeremiah 10:12 or Jeremiah 51:15. All of these verses plainly state a variation of the following:

"It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it I stretched out the heavens with My hands And I ordained all their host."

You see, God didn't make the stars millions of light years away and sat around waiting for their light to arrive. God made the "lights" here and visible, THEN He stretched them out to where He ordained them to be in the sky. In other words, the rubber band started at earth and stretched the other way:



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