First, I’ve never said the speed of light is a problem, unless you mean for the YEC; I am, in that case, saying that, though I said it more in the sense of why I have rejected the YEC position.
The speed of light is a foundational constant that has anchored our understanding of physics an understanding on which so much of our technology is derived and functions.
There is nothing unsettled about the speed of light, and it is no longer a theory, but established a demonstrable fact.
Astrophysics and Geology cannot disagree with each other. The speed of light demonstrates the age of the universe indisputably. The Heavens declare the Glory of God, and the physical nature of the elements within the universe are just as much a truthful voice of God as revealed truth of the Bible. And as I have referenced Psalms 19 above, it is the special revelation of scripture that establishes the truthfulness of the information of natural revelation about God!
Doug
Due to a few stale expressions in English translation, and maybe to inattentiveness about a few passages, there is a case for an older distant universe but an
Recent
Creation
Week.
1, Genesis section titles. First, a person needs to understand recitation titles per Rabbi Cassuto, in FROM ADAM TO NOAH. The section titles (for ex 1:1) are not action in the narrative. Many sections have a 4 part formula, which was handy for recitation:
*section title
*pre-existing condition (for ex 1:2)
*new material (most of ch 1)
*summary (2:1-4)
This leaves us with an existing earth that was dark and unformed to start with. It may even add some time. So it is the activity of
creating or rendering in its current form that is recent.
2, Distant vs local in Gen 1. There is light on day 1, but did he mean locally? This is not a pointless question because we will see that the view of the rest of the chapter is not about the distant universe. It is about those things that pertain to earth. The kinds of functions that the local objects have are about marking seasons (although there is a bit of lapse here in that seasons are not mentioned until after the cataclysm; it is as though the piece were written so much later that the distinction of before and after was forgotten).
This can help us understand the sun's arrival on the 4th day, and perhaps the debate about its recentness.
This marking or messaging is later changed to another function after Bab-El when we read that Abraham could "read" the stars and see that justification by Christ was coming, and rejoice. He was not just counting but
reading or calculating or accounting what they meant; the next line tells us that he was told they were as numerous as the sands of the shore, so there is not much point in a tally. This is about ancient Biblical astronomy's 12 'sectors' for nations and the meaning of Jupiter and Saturn, all telling that at a future point a king would rise from Israel and he would also be a bridge or ladder lowered from heaven for mankind.
This was meant to be captured in Ps 19, but the translations often take us other directions. "There is no speech" is true to a point, but the words of the stars reach all peoples nearby. This knowledge was preserved by Daniel and he explained it and Balaam's star to the Chaldeans, whom we might say were the first miracle of the nativity of Christ (their survival was). The 12 sectors were Babylonian originally but were contaminated later into astrology.
Pluto's ice mountains and Saturn's rings are recent (because the life-span is short), and when Viking traveled past Jupiter, Velikovsky predicted it would be radiologically 'hot' and was correct. This anomaly also means it is recent.
3, Distant vs local in 2 Peter 3. We can find the difference again in 2 Peter 3 in the verbs or terms chosen: 'ekpalai' vs 'sunestosa.' The universe, it says, simply 'existed from of old' (the phrase drops the verb), while the earth is quite a different matter. Its verb is from pottery. This again allows for some time beforehand, before an RCW. It certainly means the material was there. Then Peter says it was made through water and by water, the same which was used to destroy it. Notice the innate connection between the two events, which also shows in Ps 104; it is difficult to tell which event the psalm writer was referring to.
) is the result of solar debris from super novas. So stars, a lot of them, are needed before our planet could exist. 
