Creationism is a better model than evolution

The first thing I want to make clear is that you do not have to witness an event to prove it. For example if I hear the front door open and see my moms umbrella by the door I can take a very educated guess that my mother arrived home even though I did not physically see her arrive. Next let's establish definitions. Evolution- the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. Creationism- the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution. Now which model makes more sense? With evolution, the problem is establishing how the first living thing arose on earth. While abiogenesis could not have happened on earth, as the levels of oxygen were too high, it could have happened on another planet or any celestial body, and while the earth was being pelted with meteors in its early creation, have arrived. This is the approach taken by some scientists. (9) But the evidence is pretty clear and even my opponent has conceded that microevolution has occurred due to natural selection, and he asks how this could lead to other species being formed. The answer is speciation, which is defined as "the evolution of a new species. " This occurs when a population becomes isolated from other populations of the species and the gene pools diverge. So picture if like this, you have a field with zebras in it, and they split into 2 groups and become isolated, so now all of the microevolutional changes occur separately and they become 2 different species. This has occurred for billions of years on earth, but you may ask, how can plants create new species then if they cannot move and become isolated? They use sympatric speciation, so what happens is the plants undergo reproduction isolation, and most of the results are sterile but very rarely, the chromosome number can double before meiosis and the plant can reproduce, this is rare but has been documented to happen in plants and some animals. (1) Now how can science prove this? Here are a bunch of species today undergoing speciation (8) One last note the liger can be fertile (2) Now let's move onto creationism which states that "God" an omnipotent being created the universe and "intelligently designed" all of the creatures in it. First of all omnipotent is defined as "(of a deity) having unlimited power; able to do anything"(3) So if this being can do anything, can he create a rock that is too heavy for him to carry? But more importantly, have we really been intelligently designed? Vestigial structures, defined as "A structure in an organism that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution" (4) are strong evidence against intelligent design. Why would an intelligent designer make a being that had things it no longer needed? Some examples for humans include: goosebumps, appendix, tails, wisdom teeth and others (5)(6). Also if we are intelligently designed then why would God make it so that we are only able to survive on one rock in and only on certain parts of it, why would he make it so we needed water and then make it so we can only drink .007 of the water on our planet. The age of earth is 4.5-4.6 billion years old, as proven through radiation dating of rocks. So far, rocks older than 3.0 billion years have been found in North America, India, Russia, Greenland, Australia, and Africa. (7) But the creation model has the earth at 5-7 thousand years old. Noah's ark, states that every animal in the world was on this one ship and then they spread out and populated the earth, but if that is true then how did Kangaroos get to Australia? The ark would have landed in the midde east somewhere, near Turkey, so there is no way that the kangaroos could have made it. 1. Biology 10th edition Solomon Martin Martin Berg (my biology textbook) 2. (. http://newsfeed.time.com...) 3. (. https://www.google.com...) 4. (. http://www.yourdictionary.com...) 5. (. https://www.britannica.com...) 6. (. http://evolution.about.com...) 7. (. http://www.talkorigins.org...) 8. (. http://www.darwinwasright.org...) 9. (. http://www.pbs.org...)