Are there any YECs in the house here?

[Drich]

It's neither. It's acknowledgement that such a theory exists, but I do call into question the accelerated evolutionary timeline needed for the next period to be on time. Meaning more animals survived the Kt event that what was estimated. which means animals thought lost at a moment in time may have carried on 100's of thousands of years longer than predicted.

I am also saying that there are other theories scientific in nature that do a lot better job explaining the fossil record than darwinism.

Can you point to any scientific papers and/or textbooks that support your POV?

yes serveral. actually it is the competing view that seems to be gaining steam in the scientific community.
Look up punctuated equilibrium

Of all the theories on this list, Punctuated Equilibrium is by far the most mainstream. First off, it’s not a totally separate theory to standard evolution—more like a fine tuning. Secondly, it has a whole host of respectable science-types who are down with it, because it helps solve a number of problems.

The trouble with the fossil record is there’s a lot missing. If evolution is a gradual process, it stands to reason there should be a huge number of transitional fossils floating around out there—but we’ve yet to find them. That could be because we haven’t uncovered them, or it could be because transitional forms rarely last very long. According to Punctuated Equilibriumthis is due to evolution happening in rapid bursts, often linked to massive global changes. After staying more-or-less the same for gazillions of years, a sudden shift in environment sends a species into Darwinian overdrive. By the time things settle down some fifty thousand years later, only the ‘fittest’ have survived and it’s their evolved descendants who get to hang around for another million years and turn up in the fossil record. It’s persuasive, solves a bunch of problems and its creator even turned up on the Simpsons. What’s not to like?
https://listverse.com/2013/03/08/10-alternatives-to-evolution/

This is one that explains how the evolutionary process has so many missing links and how after a mesozoic era end the other beings so quickly. Or again there are alot more hold overs from previous eras than originally thought which brings us to the theory that says once in a perfect pangea world everything lived together and has the continent divided mass extinction level events and the rise of man these species all simply died off one at a time till we have what we have now.

[Jehanne]

Puncuated Equilibrium and Gradualism are not diametric opposites. Did God create small pox, and if not, how did that come to be?