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Scientists (geologists/geochronologists) also use evidence to back up their claim that Mt Everest is very old. Their "educated guess" uses a lot more education/knowledge than guessing. You seem to be saying that they just made it up with no evidence to support it at all.

An analogy:

You are trying to determine a person's age. {snip}
Why bother with analogy when we have history? There were people who desired the Earth to be ancient beyond belief. They set about to find any evidence they could possibly misinterpret to support this claim. They took sediments and claimed that they accumulated slowly over millions of years rather than quickly as the result of deposition. Nobody believed their nonsense until they overthrew science and put their own people in place. After the takeover, they began searching for more backup, since the sediment story was so obviously false.

There's really no mystery at all here.
Which people desired the Earth to be ancient beyond (your) belief? Are you talking about your baloney about the X-Club? Take that nonsense to that thread. You have yet to show that this was their intent, much less show that the theories they were supporting are actually incorrect.

Besides, geologists had determined the Earth was quite old long before the X-Club or don't you read your history

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke