And some of us dropped that steaming pile when our Pastors could not explain away Dinosaurs.
Its easier to let science do the dating. They are getting pretty good at it.
As an aside, I do a lot of radiocarbon dating, and I want my results to be as accurate as possible! I don't know all the answers, and sometimes I get dates back I can't explain. Then its time for more research, more dates, to try to figure it all out. I have done ten or even twenty additional dates to figure out what the patterns are when they get complex.
They say, if you have one date you know everything, but if you have two you aren't so sure. Sometimes you need 30 or 60 to have a good idea of what happened.
And, a good number of those dates are older than 6,000 years.
Despite my earlier post about Pastors and Dinosaurs...I AM a born again Christian, studying to become a Pastor. I simply do not buy the "young earth" idea.