Life and the Universe were Created

Life and the universe were not created since there is no viable evidence to support the notion. Yet there is overwhelming, compelling evidence to affirm that life and the universe were not created and merely follow the natural laws of chemistry and physics. My opponent has submitted a circular (therefore redundant) argument that existence is an illusion, yet not denying the existence of something and that something being ambiguous. My argument for life not having been created is that we have abundant scientific, tangible and living evidence that proves beyond a doubt that all life has evolved from a process of evolution through natural selection. It was Niel DeGrasse Tyson who explained in very simple language in "The Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey" that over a period of some hundreds millions of years, minerals and seawater interacted with sunlight to form a rich "soup" from which, among other things, amino acids formed and from them DNA, the building blocks of life. Richard Dawkins, in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" goes on to explain that each stage of building DNA and the subsequent living cells is quite deliberate in that they follow the natural principals of physics and chemistry and not by the intention of a creator. The complexity comes about from the cumulative effect of each stage of building and rejecting. Through a process of natural selection plant and animal life have evolved over millions of years. If not for the enormous number of fossils ( especially of early forms of human beings) being found to confirm evolution we have living proof before our eyes right now. From simple one celled amoebae to human beings we can confirm that species come and go and that species develop. The human body for example still has tonsils, an appendix and a gall bladder, all of which were once larger to accomodate different diets (adaptation). We have a slight curve in our spine and fossils of bones from our ancestors show more pronounced curvatures of the spine which indicates that our predecessors walked on all fours. The universe itself comprises millions of spinning spherical objects all following the principals pf physics and chemistry in their behaviour. There is no evidence whatsoever that these laws have been deliberately tampered with in any way by a creator. In fact if indeed there were a creator we would not have the life forms and universe that we have now, it would look entirely different. It would be ludicrous to suggest that billions upon billions of planets and stars were created for the sake of maintaining life on just one of them. Also, if a creator were to build life it would be logical and reasonable to assume that (He) would use better materials at his disposal to create humans rather than from protein, water and trace elements. It would also be logical and reasonable to assume that it would take maybe a few years to create the first prototype from ground up, not the billions of years that we know it took for human beings to develop through evolution by natural selection. So, not only do we have no evidence to support the creation of life and the universe, we have solid, irrefutable evidence that contradicts such a claim.