I have no issue with an old universe. I believe the science. I also believe God made it. Ever since I started thinking about “inflation” it has drawn me to believe that the universe is a much larger than we can see. That’s why I asked about “can we see the same distance in ALL directions, because I don’t know the real science about the distances. This means either of two things. Either we are in the center of the universe, which could be coincidental but highly improbable; or the Universe is much larger than we can see and the light has not reached us yet. That would support the idea that inflation took place at a time when the current laws of physics did not apply and the rate of inflation was much faster than the speed of light..
Pardon my presumptions. Not a lot to go on sometimes...
The theory of “inflation” is oft described like dots on a balloon: the balloon expands, all dots get farther from all others, there is no “center” per se (as far as the dots can tell while existing on the surface), and all directions from any dot eventually converge at a single point despite all moving “away” from each other. The balloon can expand slower than the speed of light yet fast enough (esp. early on) that light from a distant point still takes a long time to reach a given point.
Physics always applies, but outer-limits cases do seem strange, and we may not understand all the applicable physics well enough (been only a century since relativistic physics was first considered). And none of it is inconsistent with God’s doing therein.