The first suggested possibility is that the diameter of the universe is overestimated. If the known universe was not billions of light years across, but less than twelve thousand, the light from the most distant objects could have reached the earth in the duration of its existence. Luckily, few, if anyone, would make this assertion anymore, and for good reason. First of all, an alteration of the known universal radius from approximately 10 billion light years to 6000 light years would shrink the overall volume immensely, by 4.63 x 1018.
This poses a space issue. There are approximately 70 sextillion stars in the known universe. After doing the math, if those stars were equidistant from one another, they’d be a little over 19 AU apart, 153 light minutes, or about as far as Uranus. When in reality, the closest star, proxima centari, is 4.2 light years away. Earth could hardly be considered perfect for the life it wouldn’t have.
Even YECs don’t knock the scientific method on this one.
