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I knew as soon as I wrote it someone would do this :)
My statement is that the age of the earth is not currently in dispute. The science part of that is that it's still WIDE OPEN to being in dispute. If someone wants to challenge the carbon dating methodology that has been replicated countless times with the same result, it's OPEN to debate.
The non-science attitude would be to say "Nope, age of the earth is SETTLED at 4.5 billion years, and there is no possibility of questioning it, thanks to the CONSENSUS. So, no debate is possible." THAT would be bullshit.
All it would take is one scientist to challenge the carbon dating, bring the scientific proof, defend it, have his thing replicated by a number of other scientists...then we'll change and stop saying 4.5 billion years.