[VadeRetro]

Applying this prediction to the fossil record means that Intelligent Design predicts that the fossil record will show rapid speciation. That happens to be the same prediction made by the current preferred replacement to Darwinism: Punctuated Equilibrium.

It also seems to align rather well with the actual known fossil evidence.

I think not. Yours is instantaneous. There are known counterexamples.

Smooth Change in the Fossil Record.

(No, I'm not really Don Lindsay. I use other stuff in other discussions but he has some nice pages on speciation, mutations, etc.)

[Southack]

"Smooth Change in the Fossil Record."

What the author calls "smooth" in those examples are in reality distinct quantum steps of speciation.