300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
This day in August
"Mastodons, camels, horses, and cats". Today's passage evokes images of rolling grasslands with herds of camels. Like the remains in fossil deposits assigned to the Pliocene. Which in geological time is the present day.
"Extinction of some species." Dead bodies buried in sediment from Noah's flood represent entire flocks, herds and populations of animals. If they were the only living members of their species, that's why they're extinct.
"Climatic changes in temperate latitudes that allowed the spread of grasslands." Grasslands are a habitat type, not a period of time. The remains of them have been preserved as fossils.
"Elevation of the Andes and general continued uplift of continents" doesn't sound like much, does it? We're talking about the formation of the South American continent and the Pacific ocean. Nothing major.
New research shows animal evolution often involves losing genes and becoming less complex.
Deposition and lithification of sediment (Noah's flood), had to be before the formation of mountains which are composed of the sediment (Peleg's tectonics). That's an acknowledgement of the relationship of cause and effect