The Age of the Earth and the Universe

There is a distinction in evolutionary biology between what's called macro and microevolution. The origin of whole new animals in the Cambrian period requires huge infusions of new genetic information. If you accept intelligent design, it doesn't follow that you necessarily affirm young earth creationism or old earth creationism. And so while I don't hold the young earth view, I can see how someone might affirm intelligent design and have a different view on the age question than I do.