I would say that “age of earth” arguments are intermediate between Nested Hierarchies and my PREFERRED points of pro-Evolution disputation.
The benefit of age of Earth arguments is they are more concretely understood than the nuances of nested hierarchies.
But I still don’t find Age of Earth points to be as useful as these related to the KT Boundary layer:
EXAMPLE ONE:
All large marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs drown before Bears, Cows and Sheep, not leaving any fossils above the KT layer … while Bears, Cows and Sheep do not once leave fossils BELOW the KT layer. Even giant herbivores like the Brontosaurus drown before sheep do.
EXAMPLE TWO:
I commend @Timothy_Horton for his thread on all the modern flightless birds … who somehow manage to avoid drowning longer than the reptiles that COULD fly!