[js1138]

What exactly is evolution by "kind"? How do a discussion of the dynamics of evolution give comfort to people who deny common descent? Common descent describes the history of life on earth.

I'm trying my best not to be personal, but nothing in your post makes any sense. How does inflationary theory affect the age of the earth?

It really appears that you are just tossing out scientific sounding jargon at random, or at the very least, stochastically.

[Alamo-Girl]

The word “kind” is in reference to Genesis 1, biogenesis by kind of creature. Those Scriptural passages are supported by the possibility for multiple episodes of abiogenesis or biogenesis. IOW, if life is not a continuum then there is no dispute there.

On the other point, time is geometric. That is a major point of both special relativity and general relativity. In the vicinity of a black hole, while a week passes, 40 years may pass on earth. While a space ship travels at 1 earth’s gravity velocity for 25.3 years – 5x10¹⁰ years elapse on earth. And due to the inflationary model, at the inception space/time coordinates of this universe, while 6 equivalent earth days pass – approximately 15 billion years elapse on earth. That is due to the inflationary model:

In case you want to know, this exponential rate of expansion has a specific number averaged at 10 to the 12th power. That is in fact the temperature of quark confinement, when matter freezes out of the energy: 10.9 times 10 to the 12th power Kelvin degrees divided by (or the ratio to) the temperature of the universe today, 2.73 degrees. That's the initial ratio which changes exponentially as the universe expands. - Age of the Universe