If God really created the universe instantaneously only thousands of years ago, and He created the in-transit light needed for us to observe objects millions of light years away, what ramifications would that have for how we understand the distant universe?
Why is it irrational to believe that six thousand years ago, God created the light of distant stars as having already reached our planet, if that was the only way that those stars, which God intended for us to see, could be seen from the earth?