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In regards to the question of how one can see [[star|starlight]] from millions of light years away, [[Young Earth Creationism|young earth creation]] [[scientist]]s commonly mention several things.  

In regards to the question of how one can see [[star|starlight]] from millions of light years away, [[Young Earth Creationism|young earth creation]] [[scientist]]s commonly mention several things.  

* Creationist [[Barry Setterfield]] has proposed that the speed of light was faster in the past. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0809_cdk_davies.asp</ref> This idea is widely accepted by creationists.  

* Creationist [[Barry Setterfield]] has proposed that the speed of light was faster in the past. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/0809_cdk_davies.asp</ref> This idea is widely accepted by creationists. In 1999, John Webb, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia,  and his colleagues reported astronomical observations suggesting that the value of the fine-structure constant (which is related to the speed of light) may have changed which they subsequently published in 2001 in ''[[Physical Review Letters]]''.<ref>http://www.nature.com/physics/highlights/6849-3.html#ref1</ref><ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp</ref>  If correct, then various theories that constants have always may need to be changed.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp</ref> When Barry Setterfield took the position that the speed of light was much faster in the past the main objection was the purported constancy of fundamental laws.<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/fine_structure.asp</ref> 

* The work of young earth creation scientist Dr. John Hartnett proposes an alternative creationist view, by theorizing the Earth was trapped in a time-dilation field caused by extremely strong gravitation during the first few days of creation, from Earth's point of view, while billions of years passed for the rest of the universe. He attributes the field, its removal and the continued balance in our solar system (after the field was removed) to divine intervention. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i2/cosmology.asp</ref> This theory is not widely accepted by creationists.

* The work of young earth creation scientist Dr. John Hartnett proposes an alternative creationist view, by theorizing the Earth was trapped in a time-dilation field caused by extremely strong gravitation during the first few days of creation, from Earth's point of view, while billions of years passed for the rest of the universe. He attributes the field, its removal and the continued balance in our solar system (after the field was removed) to divine intervention. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v17/i2/cosmology.asp</ref> This theory is not widely accepted by creationists.

* The starlight problem applies only to a young universe. Some young-earth creationists interpret Genesis as describing only the creation of the Earth in six days, not the entire universe.

* The starlight problem applies only to a young universe. Some young-earth creationists interpret Genesis as describing only the creation of the Earth in six days, not the entire universe.