Evolution

I am taking a side against evloution, and leaning toward Inteligent design. I am makeing this debate, because I need counter arguments to these points, given that they were given to me from a Christan prospective with the reasoning "you just can't explain that," So I request that each point is adressed in the rebuttle. My opponent will have 24 hours to post a reply, and I wish him or her luck. Just for theeir sake, I have my facts in regular fonts, points in bold, and commentary in italics. I. Law of biogenesis - The principle stating that life arises from pre-existing life, not from nonliving material. [1]-Gasses can't make LifeII. Pacific Golden Plover - Migration from the breeding grounds of Arctic tundra (Alaska) to south pacific islands[2]. This is about a 5,000-13,000km journey, and make it by flying in formation nonstop[3]. there is large amounts energy usage in this process, and the bird only barely makes it though formation flight [3.1] -How can an animal hatch in Alaska, and know to fly in formation to hit a tiny target hundreds of miles away? There would need to be a designer, For if this was all left to chance, you would have a bunch of dead birds. And dead things don't evolve.III. The Dragonfly - Despite the fact that dragonfly's wings are paper thin and transparent; they are also complex in mechanics. The front wing produces lift, and the back wing produces propulsion. Not to complex, until you observe a dragonfly's flight patterns. they can fly backwards, which would switch the wing's responsibility of lift an propulsion, and they also have the ability to bank on a turn, allowing one set of wings to beat faster than the other. [4] - How would a newly evolved dragonfly learn to fly? If there was a part missing anywhere in the muscle system or a slight defect in the wings, you'd end up with a grounded dragonfly, and easy prey to birds. - The dragonflies eat tadpoles. Tadpoles can change color and shape to avoid being eaten. [5] -A brand new tadpole can't possibly know to change color and change form when a dragonfly approaches. there must be a creator who made these animals to do this.IV. The Hippopotamus. -The Hippopotamus while out of the water sweats a liquid that acts as sunscreen. This also prevents skin infections from, let's say an angry Hippopotamus fighting for his territory. [6] -Without this skin protection, the Hippopotamus would suffer severe skin damage, and infection. It isn't logical if two Hippopotamuses got together and said to one another and said "Hey, its hecka hot out here. we should sweat sunscreen" and then they produce this liquid an pass it on to their children.V. Bears -Mother grizzlies are able to nurse in hibernation for 10 minutes every two to three hours while in hibernation, without drinking water, displacing feces or urinating. the liquid from the milk comes from the mother's fat that is broken down slowly over the winter. [7] -How does that just "happen" though evolution? If one thing were missing, you would either end up with no babies, or a dead mother leading to dead babies. And Dead things don't evolve. -If a human were to go into hibernation for five months, they would lose about 70% of their muscle strength. Bears prevent this by doing isometric exercises in their sleep several times a day. [8] - There must be a creator who designed this to happen, for if it were left to evolution, a bear would stumble out of a cave in spring time and fall on its face, given its lack of muscle strength.VI. Elephants -Elephants' feet are padded to move silently, and actually it tiptoes. Even if a twig breaks under the elephant's foot, it is muffled. Also, The elephant has a way of decreasing the diameter of its' foot, allowing it to pull it out of deep mud with ease.[8] -The decreasing diameter could not evolve, for the elephant would not know that was a problem, until it became stuck in the mud. And by then It's too late. this would suggest natural design. - The elephant's trunk is about 250 pounds, Yet it has the sensitivity to pick up food from a child's hand, and turn around a pick up a log. The muscle control to preformed these tasks is incredible. [9][10] [videos] -A designer would need to find tune these mechanics. VII. The peppered moth -The peppered moth has been in the evolutionist's arsenal for years. The Idea is that this moth was white, but after the industrial revolution, all the trees were turned dark. so when the peppered moth would land on tree trunks, they would be eaten by birds. But here's the problem- Peppered moth's don't rest on tree trunks, they prefer the canopy where they blend in. [11]VIII. Birds -Birds' wings have the ability to manipulate their feather for evasive maneuvers though trees, as well as formation gliding. Also the way a bird digests quickly is important, given the less weight the easier it is to fly. A birds repertory system is so complex, given the amount of oxygen needed to use their wings. [12] -As you can see by making paper airplanes, the ability to fly is incredibly delicate, And f or this to evolve, well it wouldn't evolve. because birds would be grounded, and then you would end up with dead birds. Dead birds go extinct. Like the dodo.IIX. The earthworm - The earthworm has little anchor itself to make moving possible. [13] -Without these, the worm would kind of be stuck, and eventually eaten. and I think I may have mentioned that dead things don't evolve. -The earthworm also has the unique ability to regenerate body parts[14] -the ways this can go wrong is easy to see. Without a designer, the worm can't be hanging out underground, when a mole eats it head off, and say to itself "this whole being dead thing sucks, I should grow a new head"IX Acquired characteristic -this is when an organism acquires an characteristic. this is great accept it can't be passed on. Just like If I had gauges, and my wife had gauges, My baby wouldn't have gauges.Sources:1 http://www.biology-online.org...2 http://www.state.hi.us...3 http://naturalhistorywanderings.com...3.1 http://www.icr.org...4 http://jeb.biologists.org...5 http://avesbiodiv.mncn.csic.es...6 http://aliciac.hubpages.com...7 http://www.grizzlybay.org...8 http://nrs.wsu.edu...9 [see video] http://www.youtube.com...10 [see video] http://www.youtube.com...11 http://www.arn.org...12 http://www.evidencesofcreation.com...13 http://earthwormsinfo.com...14 http://www.futurity.org...