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There's the answer to my 11 million. [That is, a steep decline in c starting on Day 4 of creation, two days before the end of Creation Week.]

Not really. Thinking about it, four days of 11 million times boosted light-speed doesn't steal much of a march on some of the cosmological distances we have. Four days of that will get you a little more than the diameter of a typical galaxy like ours. The boost factor of 11 million, if it's still being used at all, must be the average over some longer early interval.

From that Setterfield paper again.

Since our solar system is about 30,000 light years from the centre of our galaxy, the brilliant illumination from the quasar there would supply the directional light during the first few days of Creation Week before the sun lit up. This intense burst of light would appear to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Since light-speed halfway through Day 1 was about 6.8 X 1011 faster than now, it would take light about 1.4 seconds to reach us from the quasar at the centre of our galaxy. Today, it takes approximately that long to send a light signal from the earth to the Moon.

The "6.8 x 1011" in the above can only be an HTML-induced typo. It's 6.8 x 10¹¹, on Day 1. THAT'll get you places fast, but what that does to the Sun and Earth makes my problems with 11 million and the various energy excesses in multiples of that look like molehills. To paraphrase Groucho, "That isn't easy, molehills from mountains! TRY that, sometime!"

More notes to self, here.

Midway through Day 4, we're already down to 13 million and dropping madly.

The astronomical data indicate that light-speed dropped from a maximum of about 8 X 1011 times its current value near the beginning of Day 1, when the Population II stars were formed, down to about 1.3 X 107 times its current value midway through Day 4, when the Population I stars started shining.

Again, 1.3 X 107 really means 1.3 x 10⁷. Any residual heat from Day 1 when things were really hot has had no time to dissipate and we're still cooking like mad.

I don't see a value in that paper for Day 6, which is when Adam and Eve make their entrance. It doesn't really matter. Frankly, even if the entire decline to modern values happened on Day 5--which most definitely is not the claim--there isn't time to tidy the place up were anyone but The Big Guy Himself on the job.

It's a miracle, that's all. A miracle.