@eladar said
Could be, but you could never tell by looking at nature. That was the point, not that you are likely to be able to understand the point that I am trying to make.
If Adam looked up into the heavens and saw stars, the light from those stars must have been travelling towards Earth for some period of time. 186000 mi/s is the speed of light in a vacuum. So, if Adam was created on the sixth day and looked up at the night sky his first night, then the light he saw would have been travelling for at most five and a half or six days from those stars to reach Earth. Do the math: that tells you how far away those stars could have been, and by implication, the size of the infant universe as God created it.
60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 6 days = 518,400 seconds in six days.
518,400 seconds x 186,000 miles per second = 96,422,400,000 miles. That is how far away those stars were which Adam first saw in Eden.
This works out to 0.01640220 light years. That's the maximum radius the (visible) universe could have had at that time.
It's too small. Way too small. Many orders of magnitude too small. Pluto lies 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, and the first stars Adam saw were supposed to be 96 billion miles away, only about ten times farther than Pluto? It's not even plausible.
So, to reconcile the size of the universe with Adam's having seen stars in the night, you would have to suppose that the universe is as big as modern science reckons it is (on the order of tens of billions of ly, not 0.016 ly), and that God created the lights Adam saw midway, already somewhere in the middle. In other words, the light did not emanate from stars at all, the light we think we see from stars was really just created in the middle somewhere, out of nothing. Sheer nothing. This would be deception on a cosmic scale. If the lights we see in the sky do not come from distant stars, then the universe is not divine, it's diabolical.
There were trees in Eden. We know because Adam was told not to eat the fruit of one of them. Trees have growth rings. If Adam had cut down a tree in Eden, how many growth rings would there have been? If he had cut one down on the first day of his life in Eden, would there have been ten or twenty years of growth rings, even though the tree was at most five or six days old? If so, there is a credibility problem.
Perhaps you want to say that God made the tree old, with growth rings from a past which never happened. And that God made the Grand Canyon old, and the sediments at the bottoms of lakes old, and fossils old, and the chambers in nautilus shells old (a nautilus grows new chambers as its body size increases), recordings from a past which did not happen. In that case, your God is a deceiver. On a cosmic scale.