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Line 20: − + − However, most creationists reject this explanation, as the light contains images of events that would therefore never have actually happened, including [[supernova]]e, meaning that we are seeing an image of a star exploding, even though the star never existed. − This would make the creator a deceiver.<ref>Humphreys, 1994, p.43-46.</ref>
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The '''starlight problem''', or '''starlight travel-time problem''' concerns the placement of stars at distances so far from Earth that starlight could not traverse that distance, at its current velocity, in less than the age of the universe. Yet the light has reached Earth anyway. This is a "problem" for an creation-based theory, including the [[Big Bang theory]].
The '''starlight problem''', or '''starlight travel-time problem''' concerns the placement of stars at distances so far from Earth that starlight could not traverse that distance, at its current velocity, in less than the age of the universe. Yet the light has reached Earth anyway. This raises a question under any creation-based theory, including the [[Big Bang theory]]: how did this starlight reach Earth so quickly?
There is no conflict with the description in Genesis, which says, "let there be light, and there was light." It doesn't say, "let there be light, and there was darkness that light later reached."
Other possible explanations include the possibility that light traveled faster at higher energies in the past, and/or space has expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light.
[[image:Crab composite cx.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Crab nebula, a supernova remnant]]
[[image:Crab composite cx.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Crab nebula, a supernova remnant]]
=== Light created in transit ===
=== Light created in transit ===
Some creationists have proposed that the light we see from stars more than 6,000 light years away was not emitted by those stars, but was created 'in transit' by God.
Some creationists have proposed that the light we see from stars more than 6,000 light years away was not emitted by those stars, but was created 'in transit' by God. Some question why we would see an image of a star exploding if the explosion did not actually occur, but the finest artistic design is often illusory.
=== Moon-Spencer theory ===
=== Moon-Spencer theory ===