High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Creationist cosmologies encompass a variety of hypotheses of young Earth creationists that are designed to support the religious belief of a literal reading of Genesis and that the universe is only a few thousand years old. Creationist cosmologies are often concerned with solving the "starlight problem"; that light from galaxies which are billions of light-years away take billions of years to reach Earth, in contradiction to a universe age of thousands of years. Attempts to explain away the scientific evidence for the age of the universe of 13.7 billion years has also been incorporated. Young Earth creationists re-interpret phenomena such as galactic redshifts and the cosmic microwave background to fit into their beliefs, though there is no single creationist model which attempts to uphold the cosmic microwave background as interpreted by the Standard Model.