Assuming you visit every hemisphere on a crisp, clear evening, a human observer with good eyesight is theoretically able to see about 9600 stars with the naked-eye. Realistically however, you might be lucky enough to only see half of these due to numerous variables (e.g. weather conditions, low altitude).
These stars range from the seemingly up close and personal North Star (at 430 light-years) to Deneb which is 1,600 light-years away. The closest star to our own Solar system is actually a trio located a little more than 4 light-years away (Alpha, Proxima Centauri).
In addition, humans are supposedly capable of seeing stars up to a threshold of around 4,075 light-years (Rho Cassiopeia). And the most distant object we can see with our unaided eyes is the Andromeda Galaxy, approximately 2.5 million light-years away.
I mention this because various proponents of a theistic creation (Young-Earth Creationists specifically) and Intelligent Design suggest that the Earth is a mere few thousand years old.
The problem with this is that, as I detailed above, there are thousands of visible stars spread out over hundreds of light-years.
And it takes a lot of energy to move mass through space, as the object must counter numerous forces acting upon it (e.g. gravity from planets and stars).
In fact, the fastest moving space probe launched into space (New Horizons) screams through the cosmos at over 40,000 mph (it will get an extra nudge thanks to a gravity assist by Jupiter) — it also weighs 1,000 pounds, a paltry sum compared to stars.
However, even at that relatively brisk pace, it will take the probe hundreds of years to reach the closest of neighboring stars.
At this point, it should be noted that the most accurate method to measure the movement of colossal amounts of mass (expansion of space) is by their Red Shift, formulated by the late Edwin Hubble.
And guess what? None of the several thousand visible stars floating relatively near the solar system are moving away at much more than New Horizons, let alone the speed-of-light.
In fact, one of the fastest moving objects ever discovered is cruising at a spry 10 million mph (about 1.5% the speed-of-light). However, “ejected masses” like these are few and far between.
And it is the speed of our neighboring stars (or lack thereof) that raises the question: if an omnipotent deity capable of transcending the known laws of physics, supernaturally placed these stars in their current location, why would the same deity purportedly claim that Earth and homo sapiens had been around for only a few thousand years — when the visible evidence suggests otherwise?
You see, the biggest problem in denying that something fishy has taken place is that enterprising individuals like Galileo tinkered with lenses and ultimately pioneered the telescopic industry (the scope he used to peer onto the moon’s surface had a 20x magnification).
And as a result, we are now capable of seeing billions and billions of stars located millions of light-years away.
So, either astronomers are wrong; or YECists cannot acknowledge that distances between stellar objects exist and is muy vast, otherwise this key part of their theology is wrong and/or is a loyalty test from Zeus himself…