Evolution is part of atheism.

I would like to congratulate my opponent for being very specific on what evolution is. If he would had posted this earlier it would have given be an A+ on a science research assignment. My opponent seems to know much about evolution and athieism. First I would like to attack my oppoment's case then defend mine. My opponent did not defend his case, he just defined more in depth. He Evolution started with a hydrogen molecude that came out of no where. "The lack of a reason to believe in a God is every reason needed to be an atheist." -Con. Evolution is a reason why we should not believe in God. It's a scientific theory backed by evidence. This is a lack of a reason to believe in a God because it is supported by heavy evidence. And my opponent stated that "it is every reason needed to be an atheist." I will prove it below: The Greeks ideas of creation without a Creator were man's first attmpt at developing a pattern of origin called evolution. They started the ideas of spontaneoius generation, materialism, superstitions, and blind chance. Evolution describes that matter and energy were not created but already existed. Evolution forms the sceintific evidence foundation of the philosphy of materialism in today's world. This is atheism because evolution is based on sceintific evidence and not beliefs. Miller's and Urey's experiments showed how mixtures of organic compounds started the first amino acids. After a few days amino acids began to accumulate. Amino acids are the base of life. Forming on it's own proves that dark magic does not exist and thus it happens without any "relgious" help. There are also different patterns of evolution such as adaptive radiation, covergent evolution, coevolution, and punctuated equilibrium. Therefore there are many ways to describe these theories and evidences are numerous. For example adaptive radiation are like Darwins' finches stating that more thna a dozen species are very similar to one another. Coevolution is the process of changing over time. Species are clasified according to their "ancestors" and this is the reason why some animals look similar to one another such as the finches. It all happened over time without "religoius" help. Basicaly my opponent is contradicting himself by this own quote. Because the lack of an evidence to believe in God=Evolution. And "is every reason needed to be an atheist" describing that evolution is the lack of evidence to believe and it is the every reason that it is part of atheism. Defending my case: Definitons: atheism: theory that God does not exist. (Oxford dictionary) Evolution: "The idea of organic evolution was proposed by some ancient Greek thinkers but was long rejected in Europe as contrary to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Lamarck proposed a theory that organisms became transformed by their efforts to respond to the demands of their environment, but he was unable to explain a mechanism for this. Lyell demonstrated that geological deposits were the cumulative product of slow processes over vast ages. This helped Darwin toward a theory of gradual evolution over a long period by the natural selection of those varieties of an organism slightly better adapted to the environment and hence more likely to produce descendants. Combined with the later discoveries of the cellular and molecular basis of genetics, Darwin's theory of evolution has, with some modification, become the dominant unifying concept of modern biology." (Oxford Dictonary) I will defend my contentions: "There is no sign on the capital lawn declaring that the God exists. Does this mean that the white house is atheistic?" Our Declartion of Independence has the word God in it and our Pledge of alligence has the word God. These are as important as the captial law declaring that the U.S is a God based country. Atheism is supported by faith, it does not require hardcore evidence, just faith or by not taking a side between the issue of God or Hell. "Without the light of evolution, most all of life would seem odd and mysterious and insuperable and quite strange. This has nothing to do with atheism. We simply wouldn't understand life without understanding evolution."-Con. My opponent states this and "light of evolution" emphasizing that evolution is a part of atheism because it is superior and is a "savior" of atheim. "most all of life would seem odd and mysterious and insuperable and quite strange," The Greeks believed in this and formed the foundation of evolution to try to solve the mystries of the world without religion interfering. If we wanted to find out something we wouldn't want anything to interfer. This is human nature. Same happens here because we want to find the mysteries of the world and nothing interfering it. It's like playing a sport, you're focused on winning and you don't want discouragement, fear, or thoughts of other things to interfer with your game. Same applies here we don't want fear, discouragement, religion, and failure to disappoint us. "Not every experiment has a flaw, and even those which do are repeated enough that any mistakes are factored out." -Con. My oppononent agrees that experiments are flawless. So the evolution evidence are based on experiments are all true and if they do lead up to atheism they cannot be proven false. "We actually have some pretty good ideas of how life begins and ends without an afterlife."-Con. My opponenent states that we do have an idea from birth to death on how life works, stating atheism because in religions there are an afterlife an atheism doesn't believe in an afterlife.. "Evolution as a theory stands alone and lives and dies by the evidence. Atheism is the non-belief in god(s)." They both share a same concept and support, faith. You either believe in atheism or not, and you either believe in evolution backed by evidence or not. Atheism is a theory that relys on faith. Evoulution is a sicentific theory that relies on absurd facts and faith. bottom line they both rely on faith. And about the sticker case here are some quotes: Marjorie Rogers a parent who protested against the stickers described it as "ATHIESTIC" and "There is a wealth of science that would support intelligent design, and that is not taught." This means that intelligent design is the scientific argument that life is too complex to have evolved on it's own meaning evolution can be doubted because of religions. According to a lawyer that was defending a school in Georgia stated that "the sticker doesn't say anything about faith. It doesn't say ANYTHING ABOUT RELIGON." The American Civil Liberties Union that backed the parents also stated "Non-evolutionary view about the beginning of life ARE religious."-New Current Volume 24, Number 12, Dec 7, 2004 For these exhausting research and refutations I urge you to vote pro. Because in several quotes my opponent has described that atheism links to evolution. Thank you, and I hope this debate doesn't offend anyone.