True. But we knew the earth was much older than 7,000 years old for more than a century before radiocarbon dating came along.
The YECs didn't. And still don't.
Of course there are dozens of dating techniques that owe nothing to radioactivity; And oddly, they all agree with each other (within their respective margins of error) that the Earth is about 4.6 eons old.
But adding up the dates and times in a collection of old stories gives an age that's off by a six orders of magnitude - so all those other methods must be wrong![]()
Or the book might just be incomplete in its historical memory.
I just manually measured the length of the equator... it is about 12 inches long... according to my ruler.
And you forgot to tell us what scale an inch represents in the real world. Was that deliberate, or were you trying to be contrary to make a point? And if so, what point would that be? Are you trying to say that humans do not have the ability to measure the length of the equator, or something else?