Evolution is the best and only explanation for the diversity of life we see on our planet today.

I am going to need to work on formulating debate topics better but I am new at this. Also I thought you would just accept the debate for the first round but that is no matter there is plenty of room for me to provide my case and offer a rebuttal. Evolution is the best explanation for the development and diversity of life on this planet. There is no other theory that even comes close to the explanatory & predictive insights that evolution offers. This is well supported by an overwhelming consensus of biologists. This is not to say that majority rules science and makes right. But I am arguing that evolution is the best explanation and a massive consensus of biologists is evidence of it's bestness. In support I will offer a couple of quotes from prominent biologists. "Let me try to make crystal clear what is established beyond reasonable doubt, and what needs further study, about evolution. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms. "- Theodosius Dobzhansky. http://www.talkorigins.org... "Life on Earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive species--perhaps a self-replicating molecule--that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism for most (but not all) of evolutionary change is natural selection. "- Jerry Coyne. http://en.wikipedia.org...So not only is evolution the best theory of life we have ever had it is the only accepted one today. There is no other extant theory of life today. Lamarc had a alternate theory of evolution but it turned out to be false. There is no theory that is even considered or being developed today. A quick search in Google Scholar of several scientific biology journals for evolution turned up 13,100 published papers. . http://scholar.google.com.mx... A google scholar search of those same journals for intelligent & design turned up 50 and they were all for bioengineering papers where we would expect intelligent design in biology. . http://scholar.google.com.mx...So there really is no other viable, robust, accepted, pursued theory of life other than evolution. So to address my opponents argument. Human Beings Killed Off Too Many Other Species:Certainly humans are responsible for the current decline in diversity and may eventually cause a mass die off of even more species including ourselves. There have been numerous mass extinction events in the history of this planet. . http://en.wikipedia.org... So the number of different species has risen and fallen. However the resolution isn't "evolution is the best explanation for the decline of diversity in species we see today or in the past. ". Regardless of the current decline in diversity of species the species of life on this planet are still many and diverse and evolution is the explanation for that. That concludes my first argument and rebuttal.