24 Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe is Old?

Critics of biblical creation sometimes use distant starlight as an argument against a young universe.

The argument goes something like this: (1) there are galaxies that are so far away, it would take light from their stars billions of years to get from there to here; (2) we can see these galaxies, so their starlight has already arrived here; and (3) the universe must be at least billions of years old—much older than the 6,000 or so years indicated in the Bible.

Many big bang supporters and old earth creationists consider this to be an excellent argument against the biblical timescale.

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Read this for help answering this common objection.