Jonathan,
I was providing the background context for Josh’s sympathizing with the YEC community. The quote you lifted out of that context can create the wrong impression.
Also, I don’t think what I provided was off topic given you included this in your quote: “And that is exactly the hypothesis that YECs and OECs have been working with over the last decade. Anyone who does [not] know this has just not been listening.” To know what Josh is referring to you have to attend to what he was saying about misrepresentations and straw men, which is what I explained. Maybe you didn’t mean to include that section in your quote, but there it is.
Anyway, Josh does not appear to be facilitating any sort of hope to the YEC community for their 6K year earth or creation de novo of all living species within that time. He’s only extending them that hope for a 6K year old Adam. As their greatest theological hold up always seems to go back to Adam.
Josh - do I have this about right?