A kink besides the fact that every generation of Christians since Christ believed they were the last one? Do tell...[No, this wasn't the kink. That was just me trying to quickly give you the timetable you asked for. The kink was the transition phases.]
So... the split didn't happen all at once? You're saying it was a gradual process?
Well then, this raises a few interesting questions:
1: How long did it take? [My opinion so far id that it took from the fall, to the days of Peleg]
2: Why was it a gradual and not instantaneous process? [You would have to know something of the spiritual world to answer that]
3: What happened to the planet while the split was occurring? If pre-split and post-split science follow different rules, then how did the physical and spiritual behave during the split itself? [ With the spiritual being a part of the fabric of our universe, as well as physical. God still talked, and walked with men (not that He doesn't still get through somewhat) Lifespans beings some ten times longer, gravity being affected, decay process changed, light of a spiritual nature that was not limited in speed, and much more. The laws of the universe themselves were not at all the same as physical only laws now are alone.]
And of course, the question on everyone's mind:
4: If the split was gradual, then what about your alleged merge?
[I think that there may well be a transition phase during the millenium. Some scriptures of this time seem to indicate some changes. So this is a thousand year period. At the end of this we have the eternal new heavens and earth, and New Jerusalem comuing down to earth forever]
The problem is that the Bible only mentions a couple of specific people by name; you're assuming that their ages were the norm. They may have very well been the exception.
[Whoa! No, more than a couple, everyone just about who was mentioned at all, it was very much the norm]
Jesus is going to have his hands full if the merge causes the laws of physics to go loopy during "the transition."
[Loopy? No more loopy than in the pre flood days. Believers who are saved, during this time, will not be here on earth in mortal bodies any more, but with the Lord, in His city already. The transition is only for the world, we will already be living in the spiritual]