Amazing that the Creationists will accept the validity of the data only insofar as it supports their presuppositions. So the fossil record CAN be relied upon for showing the emergence of species and the time can be defined as ‘sudden’, but the time must also be contorted and distorted to fit them within the last few thousand years and have them all appear ‘suddenly’ at the same time.
If these guys were not such a threat to U.S. education in Science I would find them amusing.
Correct; he failed to mention whether the creationist model he was referring to included a 6,000 year old Earth. Not to mention that "sudden" changes in the fossil record are usually measured in the hundreds of thousands and/or millions of years.