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1. According to the bible the earth is 10,000 years old. However Carbon dating (that's with rocks) has proven that this earth is over 2 millions years old?
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I think some bible scholars believe that the "7 day" creation is not literal, and it actually took thousands (millions?) of years. Another theory is that the earth really is only 10,000 years old, and God created it with the appearance that it was millions of years old (i.e. with dinosaur bones and such already embedded). In other words, he's God, he can do anything he wants.
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3. Why no mention of dinosaurs in the bible? How could Noah build a structure large enough to house ever single creature on the planet? When todya we couldn't build a structure so large and maintain it with all those animals for 40 days.
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Theoretically, before the flood, people lived hundreds of years. I think the oldest person in the bible, Methuselah, was over 900 years old. Imagine now that Noah and his entire family had 100 or 200 years to work on the ark before the flood. Makes things at least a little more believable.
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4. If you have to "confess your sins" and ask for forgivness how do children under the age of 4 get into heaven. If they can't ask for forginess do they all go to hell?
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God's mercy provides for people that are unable to really make choices on their own. As it was once explained to me, we live in a state of perpetual mercy, in which we don't have to ask forgiveness for every single sin we commit. Otherwise, if you committed a sin then died before asking forgiveness for it, you'd go straight to hell, even if you did believe in God.