Dr. Russell Humphreys has proposed a possible solution to the distant starlight problem in his book Starlight and Time using the general theory of relativity.
Can general relativity also explain how stars that are supposed to last for millions or billions of years, have already gotten around to supernova-ing for us today? (Or, in fact, millions of years ago such that we are finally just seeing them today?)
To put it delicately, this is just not so. It is only one of several possible interpretations of the Biblical account.
Another way to see Genesis 1:1 is to understand it as a gap in time from "In the beginning..." to "the Earth was (became)..." that can be filled by an undefined period of time.
Here is the problem with this so called creation science. It starts off with an arbitrary claim and treats it as an irreducible primary. It then goes out and tries to find evidence to validate the arbitrary claim while ignoring any evidence that contradicts the claim. Science, at least valid science, starts with the axiom that existence exists and seeks to validate all subsequent knowledge with logic. By the nature of the Universe a contradiction can not exist. There have been countless measurements made of the age of the universe and the Earth through multiple methods using half lives of radioactive elements as well as distance measurements and the speed of light, which has been proven over and over again. Please explain how this theory of yours invalidates all of those previous measurements. I would love to see an astrophysicist weigh in on this.