Possible Solutions​

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1.  “Creation Week involved a series of miracles, one after the other. Thus, these are things for which we can provide no natural explanation. We do not know how God could speak the stars into existence, and thus we cannot know how He created things in such a way that we can see the light from celestial objects millions and billions of light years distant.”

(from Don Batten)

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2. Einstein discovered “that time is not constant but is affected by movement (speed) and gravitational forces.”

“Now we can try to imagine God creating the universe, ‘stretching out the heavens’ (Psalm 104:2) on Day 4 of Creation Week. This would entail massive gravitational forces and enormous differences in speeds, both of which would change the time ‘out there’ compared to planet Earth. Thus, in one Earth day (Day 4) an enormous amount of time could transpire ‘out there’ allowing ample time for the light to travel to Earth.”

“Einstein assumed that the speed of light in all directions was the same.” He had no proof. We can only measure the speed of light going out there and coming back. “So, what if the speed of light towards us was infinite and the speed away from us was c/2? That would give an average speed of c, which we measure. There is no way that we can know that this is not so. And thought would mean that light from distant stars would reach Earth the instant that there were created. No problem!” (from Don Batten)

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3. The Big Bang has a similar light travel problem. See Problems with the Big Bang Theory above, and specifically the Horizon Problem.