[however, stating 40,000 as fact is offensive to ME.]
Hate to break this to you, but almost every astronomical object is a heck of a lot more than 40,000 light years away. That means almost everything you see looking up comes from thousands of times older events than a paltry 6000 years. This is science that no longer even gets debated.
aahhhhh the who speed of light thing.... I am no scientist.. but correct me if I am wrong the speed of light depends on atmospheric conditions correct? -— I believe that the speed of light was MUCH FASTER when God spoke the light into exisitence and was SLOWED DOWN to roughly its current rate when the 6 DAY project was complete..