First let me state that I am a new poster and I will be the first to admit that I have limited information. I am a YEC.
To give a possible answer to the original question, here is a link:
Distant Starlight and Genesis: Conventions of Time Measurement
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. The basic argument is that you have observed time and calculated time.
Unless things have changed, which are quit possible, evolutionists have the same issue in the horizon problem (
Light-Travel Time: A Problem for the Big Bang
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). All I am familiar with is the inflation argument, but what caused inflation to start/stop, and the more important question is why?