Evolution is a "false" word because nothing ever evolves

I accept the terms - deviance can certainly ruin a debate. First, let me attempt to clear some confusion up. It is impossible for a word by itself to be 'false' - a word is simply a linguistic device to communicate something. A full belief or statement can be false, however, so I will assume the actual resolution is something like 'The theory of evolution is false, and nothing ever evolves'. Also, Pro appears to be conflating two entirely different definitions of evolution. There is cosmic evolution, which describes the development of the earth and universe as a whole, and there is biological evolution, which describes the change in inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations - a concept that can be used to explain the entirety of biological diversity in the world. With that, I will address Pro's arguments: --> Cosmic evolution <-- First, the ability to positively prove that something is not the case does not make it a reasonable belief. I might believe that the universe was created by a trans-dimensional, bacteria loving goldfish - and you would have a hard time proving me wrong - but that does not mean my belief is justified. Similarly, you might believe that a triple-omni being created the universe, but that belief is unreasonable without positive reasons to believe it in the first place. Taking your beliefs on faith means you have a high chance of accumulating false beliefs, since the number of false beliefs far outweighs the number of true beliefs. We need a reliable method of discerning truth from falsehood, which is where methods that have proven themselves again and again come into play; the most dramatic and prominent example being the scientific method. It is this that has discovered that the universe developed over approximately 13.7 billion years, and that life has developed through the process of evolution. So, your reasons for believing God created everything in the face of scientific progress is unreasonable. --> Extinction <-- Extinction is one of the primary features of the biological kingdom - 99.9% of all species have gone extinct in the past. Pro believes this provides a problem for evolutionary theory - not at all. The primary driving force behind evolution is natural selection, the brutal process by which organisms mal-adapted to their environment are weeded out. Some dinosaurs evolved into current creatures today, such a birds, while the rest were wiped out. This did not impede evolution - when the dinosaurs were wiped out, entirely new evolutionary niches were created for warm blooded mammals and others, ultimately leading to the evolution of homo-sapiens. Not all species manage to evolve into new organisms - evolutionary theory does not predict that. --> Evolutionary pause <-- Why has evolution stopped? There is a simple answer - it has not. Evolution takes millions, even hundreds of millions of years to take place. In our meagre lifespans of a hundred years at most, and over the recorded history that takes up a minute fraction of earth's history, the fact that there has been no dramatic evolutionary changes is entirely consistent with evolutionary theory. There are numerous examples of relatively small changes in organisms, (micro-evolution) and given enough time, these changes would necessarily culminate into larger changes from species to species, (macro-evolution). In a hundred millions years time, life on earth will look very different from now.