How is it that the Earth looks billions of years old but is only 10k years old?

Question

How is it that the Earth looks billions of years old but is only 10k years old?

Answer 1

The evidence suggests it's about 4.6 billion years old, so that's presumably its age.  Your assumption of 10,000 is a number plucked out of the air with no basis in reality.

Answer 2

too much exposure to UV rays, ages the crust.

Answer 3

Because the earth is  billions of years old.

Answer 4

Correct that is how we tell the age of the earth, by looking at it. Jeeeeeeeeeez.

Answer 5

The h**l are you talking about? It's only 6k years old. Blasphemer.

Answer 6

It is a truth universally unacknowledge that the earth was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster ( praise His noodly appendages)

Every time a so-called clever scientist uses carbon dating or other radiometric dates, the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may His sauce flow for evermore) alters the results to make the earth 'appear' to be billions of years old.

Furthermore, the Flying Spaghetti Monster (gaze upon His sacred meatballs with awe) has created fossils with the appearance of having slowly evolved from form to form, and has carefully created complex stratigraphic sequences which the true initiate (Pirate Captain) knows are not indicators of younger rocks overlying older rocks, but are the sign of the sacred lasagne.

We hold no truck with the apostacy of the so-called Russels teapot

****PRAISE HIS NOODLY GREATNESS, MAY HIS HOLY SAUCE FLOW FOREVER*****

Answer 7

You are refering to the AGE of the Earth.

That is a reference to Time.

TIME NEVER HAS, NOR WILL IT EVER EXIST.

THERE IS NO PROOF WITHIN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS THAT TIME IS A PHYSICAL PROPERTY.

ASK EINSTEIN!

Answer 8

The earth is much older than 10k years, try four and a half billion.  There are archaeological ruins this old though, see link.