Evolution is a fact of science, deducible with logic, confirmed with evidence.

First I would like to thank my opponent for this debate- ------------------------------------------------------ ok so first, there is a theory, and there is a law. facts are the little things that can prove/disprove. We need to now define what a Law, and a theory is. LAW: A law generalizes a body of observations. At the time it is made, no exceptions have been found to a law. Scientific laws explain things, but they do not describe them. One way to tell a law and a theory apart is to ask if the description gives you a means to explain 'why'. THEORY: A scientific theory summarizes a hypothesis or group of hypotheses that have been supported with repeated testing. A theory is valid as long as there is no evidence to dispute it. ------------------------------------------------------- problems with evolution- ---------------------------- 1- evolution conflicts with 2nd law of thermal dynamics the second law of thermal dynamics states that as every system is created, its level of entropy is increased. or in Latin terms, any process created is going to have an increased amount of disorder from the process it derived from, saying that you can not get a more complicated process out of a less complicated one, witch is directly contradicting to evolution witch says that we evolved from dust into a single cell and eventually evolved into what we are today, saying that things get more complicated over time, because im pretty sure that we are more complicated as humans than single celled amibas. so this disproves evolution because the natural process of nature is de-evolution. 2- laws of variation with in species debunks evolution "Evolution" mixes two things together, one real, one imaginary. Variation (microevolution) is the real part. The types of bird beaks, the colors of moths, leg sizes, etc. are variation. Each type and length of beak a finch can have is already in the gene pool for finches. Creationists have always agreed that there is variation within species. What evolutionists do not want you to know is that there are strict limits to variation that are never crossed, something every breeder of animals or plants is aware of. Whenever variation is pushed to extremes by selective breeding (to get the most milk from cows, sugar from beets, bristles on fruit flies, or any other characteristic), the line becomes sterile and dies out. And as one characteristic increases, others diminish. But evolutionists want you to believe that changes continue, merging gradually into new kinds of creatures. This is where the imaginary part of the theory of evolution comes in. It says that new information is added to the gene pool by mutation and natural selection to create frogs from fish, reptiles from frogs, and mammals from reptiles, to name a few. 3- the Cambrian explosion Cambrian explosion" refers to the great quantity and diversity of life found in what is called the Cambrian layer of the geologic column. The Cambrian age in the geologic time scale is dated by scientists as being about 530 million years old. What is really interesting is not just what is found in this layer, but what is found in the layers above it, and what is not found in layers under it. The Cambrian layer has virtually every phyla known to man. Yes, all major body plans and enormous varieties of each all coexist in this layer. No evolutionary sequence here, they are all coexistent simultaneously. so basically every species that ever existed was found in this time period and before this period, this debunks evolution because all these species co-existed in the same time period, but if evolution existed they would not be found in the same time period 4- The "Tree of Life" is falling New discoveries are bringing down the whole notion of a "tree of life", as passages from an article in the mainstream magazine New Scientist show:20 "The tree-of-life concept was absolutely central to Darwin's thinking, equal in importance to natural selection, according to biologist W. Ford Doolittle of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Without it the theory of evolution would never have happened." "For much of the past 150 years, biology has largely concerned itself with filling in the details of the tree. 'For a long time the holy grail was to build a tree of life,' says Eric Bapteste, an evolutionary biologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France. A few years ago it looked as though the grail was within reach.", "But today the project lies in tatters, torn to pieces by an onslaught of negative evidence. Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded. 'We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality,' says Bapteste. That bombshell has even persuaded some that our fundamental view of biology needs to change." "The problems began in the early 1990s when it became possible to sequence actual bacterial and archaeal genes". "As more and more genes were sequenced, it became clear that the patterns of relatedness could only be explained if bacteria and archaea were routinely swapping genetic material with other species - often across huge taxonomic distances". " 'There's promiscuous exchange of genetic information across diverse groups,' says Michael Rose, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Irvine." "As early as 1993, some were proposing that for bacteria and archaea the tree of life was more like a web. In 1999, Doolittle made the provocative claim that 'the history of life cannot properly be represented as a tree'.12 'The tree of life is not something that exists in nature, it's a way that humans classify nature,' he says." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The entirety of my opponents evidence can easily be summed up in 1 key point. basically he is saying that: A) species can have lateral and horizontal changes in their gene pool as opposed to only horizontal LATTERAL: changes causing a new species(new genes being introduced via gene mutation) VIRTICAL: Changes within a species (via micro-evolution) Now these to points are the foundation for evolution, and without foundation, there can be no theory, at most, only a hypothesis (and a weak one at that). This Base has been now taken out by my 4 points. ----------------- ------------------------| --------------- --------------------------| ------------- ----------------------------| ----------- ------------------------------| -------- ---------------------------------| _______________________________| The resolution is currently negated.---| _______________________________|