If the light of all worlds were
created only six thousand years ago, then it would be impossible to see any of
them over thirty-seven thousand billions of miles distant; for light could not
travel over that distance in six thousand years: all beyond that would be
invisible, and remain so, until their light had time to teach us. . . . Again,
if the light of all the world has been created at the same time, namely, six thousand
years ago, several hundred new stars must have appeared every night since the invention
of the telescope, for the boundaries of the visible universe would be enlarged,
that is, would recede from us at the rapid rate of about seventeen thousand
millions of miles every twenty-four hours . . . (Excerpts from the Great
First Cause in a Series of Pamphlets by Orson Pratt, Jan 1, 1851, pp. 4-5)