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. ;-)
“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. ;-)”
But the are ‘sure’ the earth is older than a few thousand years.
The point is, some people are going to put forward the wrong method, but the underlying results of the actual tests used are based in fundamental science regarding radioactive decay. And geology already factors in error margins that get larger as the target gets older. It is not unusual to see error margins in excess of 50 million years once you get into the Precambrian.