So let's discuss the evidence around us that supports the conclusion of Evolution over Creation! Woop woop!
For the purposes of this thread, we'll define "creation" as a single event over a brief period of time during which all life on earth was created in more or less its present form by a deliberate, intelligent designer.
We'll concentrate on a few basic evidences: The fossil record Gross morphology Genetics
First up: The fossil record!
Using an evolutionary model we would expect to see life on earth going from less complex to more complex as adaptations compound. From a creation standpoint where the animals were created at around the same time we would expect to see animals at all stages of complexity mixed together.
Well, which circumstance do we actually observe?
If we look at the fossil record, we see the former example: Simple invertebrates to fish to reptiles to mammals and so on. These are separated by distinct geological layers. And while we do of course see simple organisms coexisting with complex ones ( just look at an earth worm) we never see something like a ichthyosaur in a fossil bed with trilobites. Nowhere. Ever. AND we find fossil beds comprised entirely of simple organisms and we never find things like a mosasaur alongside a whale or a triceratops alongside a rhino.
How does creation account for this data? Can it account for the data better than an evolution model?
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[b]Endogenous Retroviruses are a type of virus (like HIV) that reproduce by inserting their genetic code into the host DNA chain. When one of these viruses infects a reproductive cell, that viral DNA is copied into every cell of the host's children. The presence of these segments of viral DNA in the human genome are the results of discrete infection events.
But what's this? Humans and chimpanzees share these random insertion points of viral genetic material. Not in a couple places or even dozens of places but in over 200 places. If humans and chimps were separate created kinds then the odds of them sharing even a single ERV site, much less hundreds are laughably small (there are something like 10 million possible insertion points).
How does creation account for this data? Can it account for the data better than an evolution model? [media=https://youtu.be/oXfDF5Ew3Gc]
