[jimmccleod]

Those who can not except God and the Genesis account can not grasp the concept that God who is all powerful could create a total working system with the lights from the stars already visible here on earth.

But the point is, if we are observing light from a star that has taken millions of years to arrive here, then obviously the Universe is older than 6,000 years. Unless you disbelieve the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.

[Creationist]

Jesus created a working universe with everything fully functional.

This would include making the light visible in every direction. Now yes these objects are far away and the light from them takes quite a long time to reach here, some of the stars may not even exist any more.

Genesis1:
14: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

The stars were set in the Heaven's by God visible to us then and now. If God made the light visible to us we and the distance is truly that far away (which I do not doubt) then we are only seeing the light in the middle not that of the beginning.