One needs to remember the catastrophe of the world-wide flood which could also result in certain data appearing to be older than would have been the case under a more uniform rate of erosion, sedimentation etc. One needs to work with these Biblical data. Now sometimes it is said that God would have been acting in a deceptive manner by making things look older than they actually are. The importance of taking full account of what the Word of God says when doing scientific work is underlined when one realizes that science can say nothing sure about origins. By definition science can only be sure about data and processes that can be reproduced and tested.
Science can therefore say nothing about the act of creation as a scientifically verifiable fact.
That is beyond the competence of science. Scripture never conflicts with facts. God does not contradict Himself in His Book of Creation and His Book of Special Revelation. We need to remember that if we are to understand rightly we are to read the Book of Creation through the glasses of the Scriptures. The one means, the Book of Creation, is not understandable without the other, the Book of Special Revelation.