evolution is false

I would like to start off straight away. First off, I would like to point out my opponent has very poor spelling and grammar and that simply by looking at the first round, the audience should vote for me that way. Refutations "first off: each species of animal has a different amount of chromosomes in its cells which is why one species cant impregnate another, they just dont have the same mount of chromosomes. " How does a different amount of chromosomes matter at all? A breed of two different animals would create an animal composed of both genes. Until my opponent explains this better instead of simply claiming this, this point should be ignored. Evolution is not based on the idea that a monkey will mate with a tiger and have offspring. Evolution is about subtle genetic changes in an organism's body. "why would birds evolve wings? before birds had wings how would growing wings in any way have benefited them? and while they were evolving these wings wouldnt that put them at a fairy large disadvantage? infact natural selection says that they would be more prone to die off rather than flourish. " Wings developed as a result of evolutionary development of birds many millions of years ago. Wings would have provided selective advantages for food and resource gathering along with in helping the organism to escape from predators more effectively. When did natural selection say that birds would die because of wings? They're still here, aren't they? They have wings, don't they? They never died out and the wings have been a benefit, as has evolution. "the bible says nothing on the subject of evolution and in the first book utterly disproves it. " You cannot say that evolution is wrong because the Bible says so. I could say that evolution is right because the Bible is wrong. Until you have a much more reliable source, this point is invalid. "why did evolution stop when we started watching it? their is no sientific evidence that shows any evolution in any of our fossil records. " How do you know evolution stopped? The matter could very well still be continuing on, little changes day by day. For more drastic changes, evolution requires a long amount of time. There is many scientific evidence in our fossil records that shows evolution. For example, if you look at sediment near the ocean, you will find that the layers near the top possess fish and other marine animal bones. Go down deeper and eventually you will have seashells. "where is the missing link? there are no fossil records of evolution which is why their is no missing link or we would have found it previously. " Lucy, Iceman, other homosapiens, and dinosaurs. No fossil records? You are very, very mistaken. Arguments I would be interested to see what evolution means to my opponent. If he attends a Christian school, then most likely evolution is taught very poorly, or even in some other school. To me, evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations [1]. This happens. We've observed it. The English moth, Biston betularia, is a frequently cited example of observed evolution. In this moth there are two color morphs, light and dark. H. B. D. Kettlewell found that dark moths constituted less than 2% of the population prior to 1848. The frequency of the dark morph increased in the years following. By 1898, the 95% of the moths in Manchester and other highly industrialized areas were of the dark type. Their frequency was less in rural areas. The moth population changed from mostly light colored moths to mostly dark colored moths. The moths' color was primarily determined by a single gene. So, the change in frequency of dark colored moths represented a change in the gene pool. This change was, by definition, evolution. Evolution occurs in labs and in nature. For example, two fruit flies lost the ability to interbreed and produce offspring in the lab over a four-year span. They then became two different species. A new species of firewood was created by a doubling of the chromosome count from the original wood. From one species of mouse on the Faeroe Islands evolved numerous, multiples other species. 5 new species of cichlid fish have been formed in a single lake due to one species being introduced 4,000 years before. Once again, there is fossil evidence. The way fossils appear in the layers of rock always relates to relative development. There are more primitive creatures in lower (older) layers. There are constant discoveries of new transitional forms such as reptile-birds, reptile-mammals, legged whales, legged sea cows. There is genetic evidence. There is the fact that humans have a huge number of genes (as much as 96%) in common with other great apes and (as much as 50%) with wheat plants. The pattern of genetic evidence follows the patterns of ancestral relationships (more genes in common between recently related species, and fading the further back in time). Molecular evidence. These are commonalities in DNA which is separate from genetic commonalities . .. much of our DNA does not code for genes at all. But random mutations enter into DNA at a known rate over the centuries. This is called the 'molecular clock' and again gives excellent evidence of when humans diverged from other apes (about 6 million years ago, according to this molecular clock), and this corresponds perfectly with when these fossils first appear in the fossil record due to radiometric dating. Homology. Same bones in the same relative positions in primate hands, bat wings, bird wings, mammals, whale and penguin flippers, pterosaur wings, horse legs, the forelimbs of moles, and webbed amphibian legs. We also see how humans evolve. In 2006, a 4.2 million year old fossil was discovered [2]. Interestingly enough, it was found near seven other species of human, in a "fossil hotspot. " Taking the bones previously discovered, scientists saw the chain of human evolution, which proves that humans evolve. There is, more recently, a fossil that was unearthed in April this year. It was a nine-year old boy that lived in a period of time when our ancestors began to climb down from trees and lived on the ground [3]. I await my opponent's response. Sources: 1. . http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. . http://www.msnbc.msn.com... 3. . http://www.cbsnews.com...