[opaque soul]

An honest question for young earthers... If the light from a nova, said to be a million light years from earth, reached the earth today, would it be because the star went nova a million years ago? Or, Is it because the nature of light or space-time has changed? Or, Did God create the illusion of the nova event so as to make it appear that we are living in an old universe?

[GodGunsGuts]

==An honest question for young earthers... If the light from a nova, said to be a million light years from earth, reached the earth today, would it be because the star went nova a million years ago?..(etc, etc)

You might want to start here. As a growing number of creationist cosmologists are pointing out, it is theoretically possible for the earth to be thousands of years old and the outer reaches of the universe to be billions of years old, and yet owe their existence to the same creation event. For more, you might want to consult the following:

How can we see distant stars in a young Universe?

http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter5.pdf

[BereanBrain]

Geez, you guys never give up.

Ok, if you WANT to know the answer, let me refer you to a series of books I have read and own by D. Russell Humphreys (Sandia National Labs Physicist).

Humphreys’ book is Starlight and Time - Solving the Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe. (about 134 pages)

Also helpful are the Series by Gerald L Schroeder, PH.D. from MIT. - The favorite is “The Science of God” subtitled “the convergence of scientific and biblical wisdom”

It doesn't take “Billions and Billions” of current earth years to explain starlight.