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On the paelontology front they in detail point out that in any group of organisms almost all basic sub-groups appear in an 'explosion' of novelty without transitional forms. They go to great pains to point out that the links drawn in are deceptive and assumed only. They dish out serious critism to paleontology.
They do all this without, of course, actualy being paleontologists. Are we to assume that paleontologists are simply too stupid to have spotted these problems, that they are too wedded to their tenures to want to rock the boat, or are we allowed to consider that these issues might have been addresses and that the authors are unaware of the explanations?
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They pretty much agree with Behe that someone or something seeded the Earth with the basic gene types. The only thing stopping them and Behe from being YECs is that they don't accept the scientific and theological implications of a literal global flood (and Hoyle is no longer with us of course).
A couple other thing stopping them from being YECs is that there is no evidence whatsoever that they think the world is 6000 years old, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe are both famous for their hypothesis that life on early earth was seeded from space ( a view difficult to reconcile with Genesis), and given Wickramasingh's Hindu upbringing I think it difficult to justify calling him a christian.
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