"Creation Week Entailed a Series of Miracles"

Correct as far as it stands. Here is the context:

CMI : Answering a most-asked question
Distant starlight and the biblical timeframe
by Don Batten First appeared in CMI Australia Update, May 2021
(re-) Published: 10 May 2022 (GMT+10)
https://creation.com/distant-starlight-and-the-biblical-timeframe

The question does not trouble me for three reasons:

1. Creation Week entailed a series of miracles.

It doesn't trouble me for one reason: all days entail a series of miracles.

Let's be precise. That the Sun being at this angle gives light from this angle and adds up to a day with sufficient light and heat to sustain what needs sustaining as it so needs, is not a miracle. It's just common providence, and follows from optics and from how electromagnetic spectrum involves heat production.

But that the Sun is at this angle and then at that, involves a miracle - God turning the universe around earth, each day, from East to West. And Sun going on a ride in it. And another miracle, an angel on God's command going (365 times less fast than its speed at solar height over earth) around the zodiac, now under Virgo, now under Pisces, to mention two.

Joshua's long day involves both God and the angel (and the angel of the Moon) doing their movement differently, resting. It does not involve Earth changing behaviour, like "ceasing to rotate" (and then resuming it).

Does the Bible say anything like God doing things differently?

There was not before nor after so long a day, the Lord obeying the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel. Joshua 10:14

The Lord is not the sun and also not the angel of the Sun. We deal with God's moving of the universe, ceasing and resuming at the voice of a man named, like another Man on a Cross, Jesus.

And the angel?

The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear. Habacuc 3:11

zə·ḇu·lāh; habitation

I'd have loved a clearer parallelism with Judges 5:20, here:

War from heaven was made against them, the stars remaining in their order and courses fought against Sisara.

mim·mə·sil·lō·w·ṯām; from their courses

But the point is, with each day a miracle:

• there is no distant starlight problem (even on levels like those omitted by Don Batten, like novas of stars exploding 8000 or more light years away and now observed), since the first part of the cosmic distance ladder is attributing the length between two contrary points of the zodiac to Earth around Sun rather than Sun around Earth, therefore forming a triangle with star observed from Earth and also itself unmoved;
• there is no incongruity with what Joshua says in verse 12 and the effect taking place as if Joshua had said the right thing to the right objects, since he had
• miracles follow a regular law of God upholding and moving the universe
• God's existence (if not personal character) can be proven even to Pagans, like St. Paul says in Romans 1.

And obviously, whether I see tomorrow morning or not, my life having become somewhat dangerous, when it comes, morning will have broken like the first morning (of day II, I presume) and blackbird will have spoken, like the first day (V).

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Hermas
9.V.2022

Romae sancti Hermae, cujus Apostolus Paulus in Epistola ad Romanos meminit. Ipse autem Hermas, digne semetipsum sacrificans acceptabilisque Deo hostia factus, virtutibus clarus caelestia regna petivit.