Evolution true and creationism is not

It is not a coincidence that we live on a planet that has conditions suitable for life. If it didn't we wouldn't be here right now. Life evolved on this planet because its conditions aloud it to be possible, including abundance of water. Although the human brain is a magnificent phenomenon, it isn't perfectly designed. The brain can be easily prone to illusions and many people are born with dysfunctional brains. Flaws such as ADHD, autism, and mental illnesses caused by traumatic experiences should be somewhat proof that at least, if brains were truly designed, they are certainly flawed. Also our brains evolved, through natural selection, in order for strictly survival purposes. They didn't develop to understand complicated ideas such as quantum mechanics and general relativity. Our brains are also not able to concept large amounts of time, which may have been the reason why it took until the 19th century to come up with the idea that all of life we see today gradually evolved in a slow process of billions of years. Sight had evolved because it was neccesary for evolution. Although half of an eye may not seem to be very useful for survival, it is more useful than no sight at all. That is why organisms who had the simplest forms of sight passed on their trates because they were better able to survive rather than organisms who had even lesser sight, whom didn't survive and pass on their traits. Gradually over time the eye evolved to have better sight because natural selection favored sight as an essential heritable trate for survival. Although the bibles explanation for creation could be translated to be similar to the big bang, it also mentions that God created planet earth and all life on it in the same week, which is contrary to what scientists claim that the earth formed around 10 billion years after the big bang. The bible claimed that the universe was created 5,000 years ago, which is contrary to what's scientist claim that it happens about 14 billion years ago. The bible claimed that all life on earth as we see it today, all the different types of species, were created instantly when scientists tell us life evolved from a common ancestor. Although we don't know what caused the Big Bang, it is not reasonable to say that it must have been a divine creator. It just raises more questions. Although it may seem like it had to be created by a designer, there is no evidence to suggest that it was. It may seem like it had to have been created by something because matter cannot come from nothing, we now had 2 different types of nothing. There is nothing #1, which I the nothing that you may be thinking of, which is exactly how it sounds: nothing whatsoever. But your claim that the universe is made of matter is only true for 4% of the universe. The other 96% of the universe is not matter, but is still something, which I will refer to as nothing #2. it is referred to as dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, which is not matter at all actually, is in empty space all around us. If you were to take a clump of space and take out all the particles, you will find that it still weighs something, and so far scientists have no idea what the nature of it is. Dark energy is an energy throughout the universe that is causing the universe to expand rapidly, we know this because the energy that we can account for and measure should be causing the universe to slow its expansion. So there must be a significant amount of energy we aren't able to measure if the universe is accelerating. With the discovery of dark matter and dark energy, scientist are able to make plausible theories of how the Universe truly can be created from nothing, by "nothing" I'm referring to nothing #2. Evolution is just as much of a fact as the fact that the planets orbit the sun. We know that through the fossil record. Bones from older geological strata were not the same as bones from more recent strata. Here is a link that shows proof of evolution through the fossil record: http://biologos.org.... Another source of evidence came from similarities of embryological development in species that otherwise seemed very different from one another: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.... Most importantly, there is the DNA evidence: http://jacques.janin.free.fr.... The means by which evolution occurred is mostly by natural selection, as well as additional means such as sexual selection and genetic drift. Natural selection explains how adaptations arose as as a consequence of successful survival. Those who had traits more suitable for survival were more likely to survive and reproduce and pass on their traits. Sexual selection focuses on adaptations that arose as a consequence of successful mating. Either organisms had to compete to between members of one sex to have matting access to the other sex: which explains for differences in size and structure of sexes in some species, or organisms of one sex had some consensus about the qualities that are desired in members of the opposite sex: which explains how some traits found in species, that had nothing to do with survival, increased in frequency with the passing of each generation. Genetic drift is random changes in the genetic makeup of a populations. It includes mutation, Founder effects: occurs when a small portion of a population establishes a new colony and the founders of the new colony are not entirely genetically representative of the original population, and genetic bottlenecks: only a subset of genes are carried on from an original population as the result of a random catastrophe. I would advise my opponent or any of the viewers to read any book by any biologist about evolution. I don't see how you wouldn't be persuaded. It is important to correct you that evolution did not occur by chance, rather it it a completely natural process. It is also wrong to say that our universe is perfect. There are many potential threat for the future of our earth such as asteroids or comets colliding, the inevitable death of our sun, gamma ray bursts, solar flares, rogue black holes...etc. Not to mention threats for life on earth such as earthquakes, super volcanoes such as Yellowstone National park in Montana, Global weather change, disease epidemics...etc. Our new understanding of "nothing" has been changed and has made the theory of the big bang not only logical, but some physicist claim it is inevitable. American theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, Laurence describes the new scientific theories and observations that demonstrate how the universe could have spontaneously arisen from nothing in his book "A universe from Nothing". He makes the case that this is not only plausible, but inevitable. Krauss presents evidence to show how the universe began and evolved, and theorizes about its ultimate end.