“On the flip side of that argument,
evolution REQUIRES huge amounts of time.
This is why “b/millions of years” is defended so vehemently”
You, my friend, have hit the evolutionary nail squarely on the head!
Without those millions of years evolution is dead. UNLESS....the evos find a new, quicker way for evo to happen and trust me they would!
They presume that every living species on Earth evolved from those primordial “kinds” that could fit on a boat of known dimensions within the last few thousand years.
So on the one hand you have the theory of evolution, which is consistent and based upon evidence; and on the other you have creationism which says that evolution happens thousands of times faster, but is somehow constrained as far as how much change an organism is capable of. Thousands of times faster evolution within a “kind” of animal, but no evolution at all between “kinds”.