Evolution (Pro) vs Intelligent Design (Con)

Ok, I’ll take the challenge. I’ll start at the Big Bang. This theory was first thought of when Edwin Hubble was looking through his telescope. He noticed that as time progressed, all of the galaxies were moving farther and farther away from one another. This is commonly referred to as Red Shift. If you scroll along the timeline, galaxies are moving farther and farther away from one another, so if you scroll back on the timeline, then all of matter had to have been, in one spot (not nothing). According to evidence, observation, mathematics and reason this has to have happened. This is the essence of the Big Bang Theory. Now the scientists researched it more and more. They found background radiation, The Big Bang theory not only predicts that this glow should appear, but also that it should be visible as microwaves. Much more evidence has risen as cosmologists continue to learn about the origin of the universe, in the future there will probably be much more evidence found to back up the Big Bang. I will not explore the other evidences for I have described the essence of it. There is no evidence to back-up that a divine being decided to create the universe, but there is to the Big Bang. Now to the origin of life. According to astronomers, this universe holds more than 100 billion galaxies. In our galaxy alone, there are thought to be more than 8.8 billion Earth-like habitable planets. So assuming that each galaxy holds at least 8.8 billion habitable planets. If you do the math: 8,800,000,000X 100,000,000,000= 8,800,000,000,000,000,000,000! There then, is an estimate of 8,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets in the universe. This obviously is a very rough estimate; the big idea is there is a LOT of habitable planets. Over BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years the chances increase of life happening. Today we don’t know how life first started, but there are many different ideas. Among these is the ‘Slimy Soup Theory’ According to this theory, life began in a pool of water on Earth. Life started in a pool that was rich with the kinds of chemicals needed to make life. Then maybe a bolt of lightning hit the pool, or something happened to create life. This seems improbable, but out of the 8,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets and this chemical reaction could happen any second, over billions and billions of years, this could definitely happen. It’s like buying a ticket in a lottery every second for billions of years. Every second a winner is found, but the probability is extremely low. But after billions of years, it is probable this should happen. This first organism probably grew through cell division. Since we know the early Earth was mostly ocean, the first organisms were in the ocean. The faster fish had a higher probability of surviving and passing on their genes to their offspring. Fossils show some fish able to flop from one pond to another if the pond they used to dwell in loses the resources available for life. The fish with longer fins were more likely to make it to the next pond faster and survive. Longer fins started to evolve to limbs and we see land animals. This process goes on and on until all creatures are present today (and Beethoven. Fossils show early ape skulls slowly becoming more and more human. As we continue to study this, more evidence is found to back it up. It is a hard concept to understand. Especially when you look at a bird, and then at a single celled organism and try to understand that a bird came from that single cell. Or a human was once a fish like creature. It is hard to understand, but why should it not? A concept as beautiful and complicated as life itself should have a complicated answer. Not as easy as a single divine being just decided to create it because it can. Rebuttal: "’In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. .. ’ then I think it's only fair to ask Pro to give their own account of how the heavens and the earth were created. Evolution must be able to account for the whole process in order to be a complete theory. ” I have just done that, but I thought you weren’t going to go on the Bible. “I will not be arguing within a specifically Christian/Biblical framework” Yet you cite specific evidence from it. Since you mentioned it, I will argue it. According to Hebrew mythology, the Earth is only 6,000 years old. From when God created Adam and Eve, going through their entire ancestry to Jesus when Jesus died and then adding 2,014 years, it comes around to about 6,000 years. This is a fact, how can Hebrew mythology be correct if there is a 9,550 year old tree called, Old Tjikko. Explain to me from a Theistic mythological perspective on how the Earth is only 6,000 years old. I know you didn’t want to argue from only a Christian perspective, but you used it in your argument so I have to argue against it.