radiometric dating
Why are creationists so obsessed with carbon dating. It is something archeologists use. in paleontology it would be mostly useless. Does he think they try to carbon date fossils?
It's the same as Flat Earthers needing to dismiss all space travel, and especially photos from space, it's their achilles heel. Admit that and their argument is lost.
So likewise, the "Young Earth Creationists" can't admit to an earth that's 4 billion years old, because it make evolution possible. 6000 years is the bible literalist position. It's not just radioactive decay half life that get their motors running, it's also tectonic plate movements, mid atlantic ridge spreading, the Hawaii hot spot cell movement and on and on it goes.
So they invest considerable resources into trying to find something wrong with carbon dating in particular, since it covers their time range. And yes they are in fact trying to carbon date fossils. The OP in this thread was on about carbon dating soft tissue in 65 million year old triceratops bones.
If they admit that carbon dating works, then their world view starts to collapse.