I'm a YEC. Challenge me.

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I have the feeling that the OP has already gone but:

"During my search, I didn’t care about the person’s credibility, but what was said. When I came across a ridiculous argument (numerous times), I simply skipped it and moved on."

I am afraid that was your big mistake - not evaluating the person who makes the claim. How did you judge what they offered? On the way it made you feel? How it integrated with your existing belief's?

Sadly one of the firs things you have to do when reading astonishing claims (like science now shows Saturn to be just 10,000 years old) is to figure out who is saying it, where they come from, whether they might have other agendas they are trying to promote and so on.

Then you go off and do a bit of research on their claims. Is anyone else saying the same thing? Someone you can be fairly sure doesn't have an agenda? If they do then you have something to go on. If everyone else in the field you can find contradicts the first finding....you draw your conclusions.