His answer was thus, that they already knew the ages of the strata/fossils and so forth from biblical chronology and hence didn't need any new dating methods.
There's your answer in a nutshell. YEC's and IDers don't need any real world evidence other than what the bible says. There are a couple threads around here to get them to point to ANY experiment that uses their model. The results so far don't look too good for that crowd.
My question is, wouldn't it be correct in assuming that the YEC position would indeed need new, independant dating techniques and if so, have any been modelled? or tested?
Of course. But that would also be assuming they gave a shit about evidence and actually trying to find it in the first place.
"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.