Humphreys pointed out, I believe correctly (based on the claim being accepted in the context of raising problems with the physics, not on my knowing the physics), that if the Earth is at the center of a spherical universe, we would actually be able to see light from the very beginning. In other words, if we are in a geocentric universe, seeing light from near the Big Bang is not inherently a problem for young-universe views.
Besides the lack of evidence that we are in a geocentric umiverse, this fails to account for all of the stuff in between in distance and time being visible. Anywhere between 6028 light years away and 13 billion light years should not be visible in his model. Humphreys declared that it was still the best YEC model and therefore to be proclaimed as true despite the fact that anyone with a moderately dark sky and not too many clouds can see the Milky Way and know that he’s wrong.
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T_aquaticus
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If memory serves, Humphreys and others have tried out different solutions. One attempt was to propose a changing speed of light which was supposed to be evidenced by a quantized redshift. However, as more data poured in the hints of a quantized redshift disappeared. He also proposed something similar to what is in the opening post, but it was pointed out that this would produce a blueshift in distant galaxies when we observe a redshift. To their credit, it was YECs who did a lot of this debunking.