And God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:16,17
"God created the stars to enable humans—from Adam onward—to measure times and seasons. Dr. Faulkner offers an elegant solution which likewise refrains from any tampering with the laws of physics. In his biblically sound proposal, Dr. Faulkner explains how Adam would have been able to see faraway stars on the day he was created and
. . . invokes similarity between creative acts of Day Four and other days of the Creation Week, but especially Day Three. The Day Three account suggests unusually fast growth for plants. In similar fashion, this possible new solution suggests unusually fast propagation of light on Day Four, probably by rapid expansion of space.Moreover, not only do young earth creationists have answers to offer to these complex questions, evolutionary astronomers who accept the big bang have their own light travel time problem.
But the big bang does have a big problem. Dr. Faulkner comments:
The big bang model has a light travel time problem too. The fact that cosmologists have proposed cosmic inflation is proof of that, because one normally doesn’t offer a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Inflation supposedly solves their light travel time problem, as well as other problems, which is why there was much excitement over the March 17 announcement of alleged discovery of evidence of inflation. I say “alleged,” because I suspect that the announcement is a bit premature and I am skeptical." AIG