Creation and Evolution are both Religions

As i can see by your name this is clearly something you are very passionate about and i will try my best not to act in an offensive manner however i am very much offended by the opening statement. you are correct when you say creationism is a belief. it is. evolution is not a belief either in a traditional sense (worshipping a benevolent god (darwin was good but not that great)) or in another sense of being an assumption made with little or lacking evidence. evolution you yourself acknowledge has been proven on a micro scale in a few years and only ignorance would hold back from assumng that this evolving process cant take place over millions of years and changing weather conditions (like an ice age) to yield a huge variation. evolution is not and will never be a religion. evolution is not a religion option on this website and you dont get tax breaks for being a biology teacher who teaches evolution as you do if you are a priest?? im a bit dumbfounded by the way you assert at the start "creationism is a religion" but then say "i will prove creationsism is fact" by doing this you would contadict your own argument and only prove my side. (albeit in the alternative manner to which i intend to do it) ie if i prove evolution to be irrefutably true or you prove creationsim to be true then it is not religion it is fact. i will be arguing this definition of evolution. "Evolution is change in heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations". now to prove that evolution is a belief system you will have to contradict these points, trying to prove creationism will not be relevent or useful to your argument unless you want to concede creationsim is not a religion. firstly 1. The universal genetic code. All cells on Earth, from our white blood cells, to simple bacteria, to cells in the leaves of trees, are capable of reading any piece of DNA from any life form on Earth. This is very strong evidence for a common ancestor from which all life descended. 2. The fossil record. The fossil record shows that the simplest fossils will be found in the oldest rocks, and it can also show a smooth and gradual transition from one form of life to another. http://evolutionfaq.com... . Genetic commonalities. Human beings have approximately 96% of genes in common with chimpanzees, about 90% of genes in common with cats http://genome.cshlp.org..., 80% with cows, 75% with mice http://journals.plos.org..., and so on. This does not prove that we evolved from chimpanzees or cats, though, only that we shared a common ancestor in the past. And the amount of difference between our genomes corresponds to how long ago our genetic lines diverged. 4. Common traits in embryos. Humans, dogs, snakes, fish, monkeys, eels (and many more life forms) are all considered "chordates" because we belong to the phylum Chordata. One of the features of this phylum is that, as embryos, all these life forms have gill slits, tails, and specific anatomical structures involving the spine. For humans (and other non-fish) the gill slits reform into the bones of the ear and jaw at a later stage in development. But, initially, all chordate embryos strongly resemble each other. In fact, pig embryos are often dissected in biology classes because of how similar they look to human embryos. These common characteristics could only be possible if all members of the phylum Chordata descended from a common ancestor. 5. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Bacteria colonies can only build up a resistance to antibiotics through evolution. It is important to note that in every colony of bacteria, there are a tiny few individuals which are naturally resistant to certain antibiotics. This is because of the random nature of mutations. When an antibiotic is applied, the initial innoculation will kill most bacteria, leaving behind only those few cells which happen to have the mutations necessary to resist the antibiotics. In subsequent generations, the resistant bacteria reproduce, forming a new colony where every member is resistant to the antibiotic. This is natural selection in action. The antibiotic is "selecting" for organisms which are resistant, and killing any that are not. I await your response.