[dirtboy]

Strawman. Carbon-14 dating is only good for thousands of years, since it has a half-life of 5,730 years, and that is a given. It is typically used only to date recent archaelogical sites (recent being in the 10s of thousands of years). Uranium-lead and Potassium-Argon are good for dating back billions of years.

[Mr. Douglas]

I should have read your post before my last post.

But I don’t think this is a straw man. I think they are making the point that a lot of people that argue vehemently for an old earth don’t really know what they are talking about.

Arrogant ignorance.

I’ve noticed that when you talk to someone that is actually doing the hard research in fields related to biological or geological evolution, they are nowhere near as “sure” of all the timelines as those that took a few classes in college. ;-)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

...and there's also Helen Thomas dating where counting the number of wrinkles can get you back to beginning of the universe...

[PIF]

“Strawman”

Or fake news for the gullible ...