So like... finding carbon older than 6000 years was proof that the whole science was bunk? That's some circular reasoning, alright.

But.....

God created that carbon to make it look like the Earth is older than 6,000 years.

(Yes, an American I met did make this argument to me regarding the fossil record. There is no helping some people.)

No, the point is that you can't trust anything a scientist says. It's literally reliant on a giant conspiracy theory that most of society is controlled by a secret war between satan and god and scientists (and leftists and democrats and and and) are on the side of satan and trying to turn you away from gods light.

Remember that America has a large, large population of fundamentalist christians. Remember that The USSR was nominally an atheist state. The US pretended to be more "godly" to contrast itself against that. That included adding bullshit like "In god we trust" on all money, making kids every single day say "Under god" to an american flag, and literal propaganda campaigns about how those godless commies were terrible and in league with satan.

The point is that you can't trust anyone other than your dad or your pastor.