The speed of light, stars, and YEC?

[Huggy Bear]

The answer is very simple.

Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Nowhere does the Bible state how long the "heaven and earth" have been around before God decided to place life upon it, making the idea of the earth being 6000 years old nonsense, there is no basis for it in the Bible.

If you calculate biblically from the time God began to place life on the earth to now it would actually come out to be around 13,000 years.

Psalm 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

This would mean each day of the creation was around 1000 years.

As a side note, 6000 years of creation then God rested for a 1000 years. Now it's been around 6000 years after creation and there is another rest period coming which is the millennium, 1000 years of peace.

Revelation 20
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.