How do creationists explain stars?

I've read most of this thread, but not all of it, so forgive me if it was mentioned already but I fail to see why the creation of the Earth 6000 yrs ago would prevent light from 14 billion years ago from reaching it today.You realize that you are seeing light today from a star formed lets say a billion years ago, a billion light years away. The Earth is here today, you see that light today, what's the problem? It may be old light, but there is no reason I can see that it cannot reach earth just because the earth itself is young.I can roll a bowling ball down an alley with no pins at the end of the bowling alley. Now as the bowling ball approaches half way down the alley, I place a pin at the end of the alley. The bowling pin is the earth, the bowling ball is the photon. The ball does strike the pin does it not? Even though the pin did not exist when I first tossed the bowling ball.So if the bible claims the world was created 6000yrs ago, as you stated in your original question, how are the stars being 14 billion years old contradicting that?Edited by Calypso, : No reason given.