One of the biggest issues raised about young-earth creation has been seeing distant Starlight. After all, even the nearest stars are light-years distant, and the furthest edges of the universe are 10s of billions of light-years away. Consequently, from a naturalistic perspective in a young universe, light should not have had sufficient time to reach the Earth from anything more than about 6,200 light-years away.
The nature of the distant Starlight problem.
The distant Starlight problem is based on light having a finite measurable speed, which would take years to reach us even from the nearest stars. Furthermore, it would take 10s of billions of years to reach us from the edge of the universe. In theory, we should only see a sphere of stars of about 6,200 light-years in radius and expanding by one light-year every year. However, this idea has two major assumptions behind it that Special and General Relativity show are wrong. These two assumptions are the ideas of absolute time and an absolute now. The simple fact of the matter is that neither of these exists under Special and General Relativity.
The White Hole Cosmology.
Developed by Dr Russell Humphries, the white hole cosmology presupposes that the Earth pretty much started as a ball of water with a mass of at least two times that of the universe. When God stretched out the heavens, some of this water remained near the center, from which God made the Earth, some was stretched out to the outer edge, and the rest was sprinkled in between to be used to form the sun, moon, and stars. According to this cosmology, as God stretched out the universe, the Earth was initially highly time dilated with regard to the rest of the universe, allowing more than ample time for light to reach us from even the most distant parts of the universe.
The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention
The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention is based on the fact that, because there is no absolute now in the way Special and General Relativity work, it is Impossible to measure the one-way speed of light. In other words, it is only possible to measure the two-way speed of light. As a result, you can arbitrarily set the one-way speed of light at anything you wish, as long as in both directions it averages out to a two-way speed of light equal to what is measured. The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention sets the outgoing speed of light at 1/2 the measured value, and the incoming speed of light at Infinity. Consequently, as long as the Bible uses this convention, there is no distant Starlight problem, because there is sufficient space-time between the Earth and any distant object for its light to reach us with what we see is happening now.
They are not mutually exclusive.
What needs to be noted about these two concepts for solving the distant Starlight problem in a young universe is that they do not exclude one another. The simple fact of the matter is that both of these ideas could be correct. The primary reason for this fact is that they both extend from Einsteinian relativity, meaning that they are consistent with each other. The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention has the advantage that it is not dependent upon any particular cosmology, but it is also not testable because it is a convention based on relativity, not a hypothesis. The white hole cosmology, on the other hand, is potentially testable in the patterns that we see in the universe.
Conclusion.
Seeing distant Starlight is not really a problem within a young-earth creation, simply because Einsteinian relativity provides two viable solutions to a problem that also has two fundamentally false assumptions that Relativity does away with. These two assumptions are those of absolute time and an absolute now. Because these two assumptions are wrong, so is the notion that seeing distant starlight in a young universe is a problem. It simply requires there to be sufficient space-time from any distant object for the light to get to us. Both the white Hole Cosmology and the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention include sufficient space-time to solve the distant starlight problem.
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References:
Russell Humphreys White hole cosmology
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLuqMqjAEWWUvRfGtaoyKa9ys79DXS2FR
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The Anisotropic Synchrony Convention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
https://answersresearchjournal.org/anisotropic-synchrony-distant-starlight/
