[count-your-change]

The accounting for starlight from far distant stars with an explanation that says, if I understand it, that the stars are old but the light from them is young to us.

And the wet version of the big bang, wherein the universe was a ball of water 2 light years in diameter, collapsed to form everything. It takes a judo on Genesis to make it support this. As propounded by Dr. Humphreys.

[metmom]

The accounting for starlight from far distant stars with an explanation that says, if I understand it, that the stars are old but the light from them is young to us.

So the further out we see, the further back in time we're looking. And what information about the beginning is that showing us?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

The age of the universe is about 13.7 billion years, but due to the expansion of space we are now observing objects that are now considerably farther away than a static 13.7 billion light-years distance. The edge of the observable universe is now located about 46.5 billion light-years away.

Estimates of the matter content of the observable universe indicate that it contains on the order of 10 [to the 80th] atoms. The vast majority of the energy density is contributed by dark matter and dark energy.