We're all cynical given our past education and indoctrination -- I understand and had to move beyond it myself. But our "education" was extremely limited as result of an incestual, self-serving scientific community who ostracize their own as their institutional dogma has essentially become a religion of sorts and un-challengable. In this sense they're like Democrats and 0dinga-worshippers.
IF you're truly interested in an honest assessment of dating methods and the entire subject of Evolution vs. Creationism -- and the dramatic effects the Great Flood had upon the planet -- please peruse:
evolution-facts.org
Been there. They posit some mysterious force being responsible for increased decay rates of uranium during the flood. The amount of heat released by compressing an apparent 4.5 billion years of decay into one year would produce enough heat to vaporize the Earth’s crust, but they never explain what happened to all that heat, or identify this mysterious force.