A 4.5 billion year old earth?
Yes - maybe + - a billion here or there
A 14 billion year old universe?
Yes - probably older
No global flood in the last several-hundred million years?
Will wait and see if Noah's ark is discovered
No global ecology saved by 8 people on an ark?
Not sure what you mean by global ecology
But what I believe doesn't affect anyone else. Humans have intelligence and common sense and we can arrive at different conclusions.
The common descent of all life on earth *except* the human race?
No problem with the common descent of species.
I think what he means by "global ecology" is the fact that if there was a global flood as the story tells, all the life on earth would have arisen from the specimens contained on the arc.
That's why I never understood why Adam and Eve were such a big deal - if the stories are true, we're as much children of Noah as we are children of Adam, no? ;-)
In any case, there's no evidence for it. In fact, speciation would seem to discount any notion of a global flood in the last several million years.
"global" (a.) - worldwide
"ecology" (n) - a system of interacting plants and animals in a particular environment