It is a fact that time passes on the Earth at a different rate than it does in space.
yes that if a fact. Due to gravity. The difference is less than 1 millisecond per year. So that really can't explain it. If time would eb that different in space it would have been noticable when people went to the moon. This is exactly messured, it is very very small difference.
It is also a fact that scripture teaches that "God stretcheth out the heavens".
Stars in general are quite far away and many at huge distances where the light that currently is emitteded would take far longer than 6000 years to get here.
However if God "stretched out the heavens" as He said He did, and this was done in less than 6 Earth days, then any light rays in transit would be able to continue to get to the Earth in a continuous manner. It would be interesting to model such a process using the equations of general relativity to see if the idea would hold water.
Sorry it is quite possible to try to put the equotations of special relativity (not general) to this. It shows that it is just not possible. For many many reasons. Scientifically this does not make any sense.
Of course 'God can do everything'.
But if all the evidence is contra to the young earth theory then you can only believe in it, if you force yourself to believe in it and don;t look at all the evidence.
Anyway you can always say God did this etc. Never can prove he didn't of course.
Hibiscus, you can also not prove that the seven days of creation did not start last week and ended yesterday.
Danny