y indeed be billions of light years away, but man cannot measure those distances.Several other methods such as luminosity and red shift are employed to try to guess at greater distances but all such methods have serious problems and assumptions involved. None of them account, however, for why a rabid little weasel likeKent Hovind would argue this, or why a student would copy a paper off of a bad essay site like this one. For a more complex and slightly different answer to the star light question from a Christian perspective, see the book Starlight and Time by Russell Humphry available from www.icr.org.Second, the speed of light may not be a constant. It does vary in different media (hence the rainbow effect of light going through a prism) and mayvary in different places in space. Of course, Kent Hovind is a crackpot, but this is his copied essay, so we'll run with the idea. The entire idea behind the black hole theory is that light can be attracted by gravity and be unable to escape thegreat pull of these imaginary black holes. No one knows what light is let alone that its velocity has been the same all through time and space. Since atomic clocks use the wavelength of the Cesium 133 atom as astandard of time, if the speed of light is decaying, the clock would be changing at the same rate and therefore not be noticed.Third, the creation account states that God made light before He made the sun, moon, or stars. The rest of creation was mature, so starlight wasprobably mature at creation as well. A strange notion, but then, this is a copied essay, so I will go with what it says. I would ask the question, How old was Adam when God made him? Obviously he was zero years old. But how olddid he look? He was a full-grown man. The trees were full-grown with fruit on them the first day they were made. The creation had to be that way; itwould not work otherwise. Stars and their light were made at the same time. The God that I worship is not limi...
