Is Genesis Real? - Starlight Problem (Problem of Time)
In the movie Is Genesis Real? there are are dozens of PhD's in many fields of science interviewed, from Astronomy, Paleontology, Archeology, Ancient Hebrew, Biology, Geology & Genetics. The two schools of thought explored are the traditionalists and the Biblical time advocates. The so called traditionalists are those who accept a Godless model to explain what we observe. One of the interesting points is how the set of facts for both schools are the same. The difference is how to explain the evidence we observe.
The movie opens in the Grand Canyon where sediment rock layer deposit is clearly apparent. The so called traditionalists explain the Grand Canyon itself and the sediment rock layer deposits in a model of SLOW CHANGE (small water), LONG TIME. The Biblical time advocates use a RAPID CHANGE (Noah flood, lots of water), SHORT TIME model. An important bit of evidence the traditional time scientists have no explanation for as you are looking at the sharp face of the Canyon wall is how come the walls are so sharp? How come there is no sign of erosion along the wall?
Clearly, the RAPID CHANGE, SHORT TIME model fits the observed world better in that case. They then take a look into radioactive dating, what many traditionalists see as the death nail in the RAPID CHANGE, SHORT TIME model. A basic presumption emerges from the SLOW CHANGE, LONG TIME model advocates; that the processes we observe today are happening at the same rate as in the past. The validity of carbon-14 dating rests on this presumption. RAPID CHANGE, SHORT TIME model advocates do not make this presumption. They allow for processes to occur in the past at different rates than we observe in the present.
And this is the Biblical answer to what is called the Star Light Problem. The problem goes like this. If the universe is roughly 6,000 years old, how come we see light from stars that are millions of light years away? Just like Noah and the flood, Creation was an even more enormous cataclysmic change. The rate of expansion of the universe is not linear or constant over time.