“The age of this planet is not a matter of faith, it is established fact.” [excerpt]
Well, you are wrong on that point.
Everything could have come into existence 5 minutes ago with the appearance of great age, and you would have no idea.
As far as that goes, you have
faith that it didn't.
You have
faith in your
interpretation of what you call evidence that you claim establishes the factualness of an age which you assert is that of the Earth.
“If the Earth was only 6000 years old, then explain to me why there are so many visible stars in the sky at night, most much more than 6000 light years away.” [excerpt]
Your getting the dust cloud ahead of the camel.
An entity capable of creating everything that is in existence is certainly capable of making stars a great distances visible.
God gave a number of reasons given why He created the stars, but 'universal dating service' was not one of them.