Distant Starlight? How Distant is That?

What has the one-way speed of light got to do with a young universe?
Creation Ministries International | 24 or 25 Oct. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dbVWrtY_3hM

I don't know if this video published 11 hours ago was so in NZ or Oz, today, or in the US, yesterday.

I do know the problem is one which has interested me since 2001.

The answer I held then and still hold, is, stars are not that far away.

I don't fiddle with the one way speed of light, I presume it's the same as the two way speed.

If Earth is still, the c. 20 arc seconds back and forth per year movement of any star is not aberration. The c. 0.76 arc seconds back and forth per year of α Centauri is not parallax. By the way it's measured against the background of aberration. Instead they are aspects of a proper movement of the stars, even if that's not how modern astronomers interpret it.

If "parallax" is not parallactic, the triangulation doesn't involve three angles and a distance, but just three angles. That cannot give us any distance.

We cannot presume the proper movement of the star and of all other stars are just the same distance as the movement of the Sun around the Zodiac.

And if α Centauri in the actual proper movement doesn't do the distance of the Sun, either by "parallax" or by "aberration", then α Centauri is not four light years away.

Dr. Mark Harwood is nearly perfectly right here:

So if you think about it, if the stars were to fulfill their purpose, the light had to reach the earth immediately. Otherwise, how could they fulfill their function? And in fact, in Psalm 19, it says, "The heavens declare the glory of God." So if we could not see the stars, how would God be declaring his glory to us?

With stars created on day 4, if their light reached Earth on day 5, so 24 h delay, that would be adequate to reach birds and fish that make their migrations by star positions. I think that at Creation, stars were one light day up. We may soon see if Voyager 1 hits an obstacle or not when reaching that distance. If it doesn't, it might be because the star layer has expanded outward. Maybe 2 or 3 light days, maybe 10, maybe 3 and 1/2 light years.

No star is "100 000" or "100 000 000" light years away.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Feast of Christ the King
25 Oct. 2026