Behold, the lens! Not just a piece of transparent material little different than the bottom of a Coke bottle, no sir! Lenses have the power to cause light to relocate instantly to camera film from 93 million miles away!
Oh wait, we know exactly how lenses work, and it can be directly observed and measured.
Okay peacegirl, you have a solar panel and a camera next to each other on Earth. God has decided to demonstrate his existence by turning the Sun off for a day, and then turning it on at noon tomorrow.
You put the camera on a tripod, aimed at the Sun's location, and set the timer on the camera to snap a photo at noon. You have the solar panel hooked to a solar powered clock that will automatically turn on when any of the photocells on the panel are activated by sunlight.
You check both at 1pm. Will there be a photograph on the camera? How much time will have elapsed on the clock hooked to the solar panel?