What the HELL are you talking about??? I’m not blaming anyone.....I’ve NEVER heard anyone actually believe that the earth is only 6000 yrs. old....certainly not Jews...I think they are smarter than that, don’t you??
Believing the earth is only 6,000 years old takes the same amount of faith as believing it is billions of years old. Both require the same thing, faith in an unproven, and unprovable, theory.
If anyone here has read the Midrash/ Midrashim of the Jews they would discover that according to some of the more compelling commentaries in it that at least one Rabbi posited 6 prior creations each with its own Sun (Shekinah Glory), its own Eden or landscape- and the men and women in the one before “ours” were naked, however they were covered in a hard, thorny outer skin, with a rosy mist that covered their genitalia preventing awareness of their “nakedness” - but on disobeying the command of God and becoming self aware their rough outer skin cracked and fell away and they appeared for the first time without them, the mist having fled as well. Although, the commentary doesn’t turn to how long these ages last - it does show that they continued to think about prehistory and attempted to explain as rationally as they were able what possibly came before. It seems to me that creation is the long process of what we term self-awareness or consciousness and that it is not a constant and this fact was recognized by the ancients. Anyone interested in these commentaries can find them in their entirety under the name The Legends of the Jews (Ginsburg) at SacredTexts dot net I believe.