A (pretty smart) friend of mine tried to show me that scientists' findings about he Earth's age are wrong because he read aome article about errors in the estimation technique.

He then argued that therefore Earth is not very old and evolution didn't have time to happen.

I was amazed...

It's quite frustrating that the illogical latch onto morsels/islands of logic that are convenient for their agenda.

You can pick and choose your religion, but you can't pick and choose with logic.

Probably, but that's very much beside the point that a huge pile of evidence points towards theory of evolution being true.

An argument from authority (My Holy Bible says that God exists!) is quite a bit less convincing than many lines of inquiry ending up at the same place.