World Online Debate Cup-Evolution is true

Excellent. It seems the odds are in my favor, regardless of who the BoP is on. Yes my friends, I know I could troll my opponent by saying evolution exists throughout Pokemon but my opponent could easily rebut this by limiting it down to the real world...or he could counter-troll me by saying we can't possibly get the gems to evolute any Pokemon within the real world, and "evolution" wouldn't be true... :PEvolution: the change of organisms over timeTrue: a correct, proven statement/factAnd now, without further ado--my argument.1. The Fossil RecordThis is simple. "Rocks found in different layers of sedimentary rock deposits" would be a easy way to say that evidence of transition between major groups of evidence. Here's the big "picture: There are actually lots of complete fossil records. One example is the horse: Another example is the common scallops: Changes in the fossil scallop Chesapecten through about 13 million years, shown particularly by the variation in the ‘ear’ on the upper right of each shell (see arrows) and in the ribs on the shell. (Modified from Ward and Blackwelder, 1975) These examples all show that in fact, animals do change over a long, long time.2a. Similarity of anatomy within different animalsTake a look at the picture below. Now take a look at the picture below. Four species of Devonian trilobites (upper row) compared with four species of Ordovician trilobites (lower row). And finally, take a look at the picture below. All of these pictures show similarity within different animals' development, and skeletal structure. For example, both the human, whale, cat and bat have a humerus, a radius, an ulna, metacarpals, and phalanges. The only explanation for the similarity within all these animals is evolution. If this does not convince you, it must be noted that whales also have a completely useless organ... This is irrefutable proof of the evolutional history of whales. Thus, this is true evidence that evidence exists, along with a common ancestor.2b. Chemical similarity Despite how many different kinds of life exist on our planet, the simple language of the DNA code is the same for all living things-- evidence of the fundamental molecular unity of life. In addition, not only does life have to have DNA, it has to have 7 other things, homeostasis, organization, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction, as noted by [1]. This only shows that all life are so similar, hinting of a common ancestor and passing down of similar traits as well as different traits. (But these 7-- 8 including DNA--remained) In fact, to stress this, most living things obtain energy by reproduction, or consuming those reproducers, or consuming the consumers whom consume the reproducers. This just shows another similarity. Morever, humans have shown massive similarity to chimpanzees/apes. They share more than 97% of DNA [6] and chromosome 2 is corresponding to the apes'. [7]3. Geographic distribution Major isolated land areas and island groups, for example, the Galapagos Islands, have often evolved their own distinct plant and animal communities. To demonstrate this, before humans arrived 60-40,000 years ago, Australia had more than 100 species of kangaroos, koalas, and other marsupials but none of the more advanced terrestrial placental mammals such as horses, bears, dogs, or cats. [2] Land mammals were entirely absent from Hawaii and New Zealand. Each of these places had a great number of plants, insect, and bird species that were found nowhere else in the world. The most likely explanation for the existence of Australia's, New Zealand's, and Hawaii's interestingly unique biotic environments is that the life forms in these areas have been evolving in isolation from the rest of the world for millions of years.Again, back to the Galapagos Islands. Ever since Darwin stepped onto there, strange animals lurked there that were nowhere else in the world. [3][4] The isolation in addition to evolution is the only explanation to Darwin's find of such unique animals as the Galapagos Turtles, Blue-footed Boobies, Darwin's "finches" [4] and other strange animals.5. Genetic Changes Over GenerationsThis is easily demonstrated with the ever-so-changing bacteria, a species very prone to mutations. Evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria Although evolution happens over a very very long time, this is a very quick version that occurs to very few species, particularly bacteria. As demonstrated above, bacteria can mutate so much as to resist the medicine, and through Natural Selection, produce a whole new species.As if those above arguments weren't enough, people can often use selective breeding to produce very different species. I mean, all of the animal within the picture below are classified as dogs, but they are very different kinds of dogs that obviously show evidence of evolution, however un-natural the process may be. This is strengthted by the fact that the wolf, dog, and fox all are different species but still share 99.8% of their genes! [5] Another example is the fast-producing different kinds of insects. They quickly become resistant to any of our bug spray because of the possibility of getting a mutant gene that somehow counters our diseases.I would type more evidence of evolution, but my fingers are too tired, and I only have about 150 characters left. So....onto you, con![1] http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...(continent)#Human_habitation[3] http://en.wikipedia.org...[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...[5] http://genome.cshlp.org...[6] https://answersingenesis.org...[7] http://en.wikipedia.org...(human)