also, this can be considered polyphyletic evolution, if you ignore #1, 7, and 10.
1. Explanation of religion.
If sentient life were to arise anywhere in the universe, would it not question its purpose? Question its origin? Since insentient life cannot pass information well between generations, the sentient life would not know its origin, since this life knows nothing from its own past, it will need to create an origin, create a purpose in order to feel more secure, to give meaning. This is where religion starts. Religion is also a way to control the population, thus we need a pope, a pasture, a priest. In order for a small society to advance, rules must put in place and are enforced. How better to do this than to say if you do not, you will suffer for an eternity? And if you believe the bible, remember man wrote it, quite a few thousand years ago. I personally would believe man of today over man of 1000 B.C.
That is my explanation on why a Religious creation story cannot be believed, so even if you are to prove evolution wrong, do not go straight to creation as being truth.
2.Big Bang: was created by CHRISTIAN Scientists to help prove the creation story, so we can both agree that this is a stupid theory.
3.Races. Pigmies, Blacks, Whites, Asians, Native Americans.
5 ft tall, dark skinned, light skinned, Thin eyed, lacking facial hair.
How can you explain these anomalies if we were all created in god's image?
How can you explain that Most are adapted to their own climate? Dark skinned people are better protected from the sun (Africa); the Asians have thin eyes, to protect from sandstorms, which occur often in Asia. Pigmies are short because being tall was of no help to their race. (Pigmies live in tropical areas)
4.How evolution works: evolution is not a slow process, where each generation is slightly different from the last. Evolution is where a mutation occurs, and this mutation helps the animal survive. This animal's offspring then survive easier, etc. This DNA is then added to the gene pool. It becomes either a dominant or recessive trait. Through blending of genes and natural selection, this gene will then become part of the entire population of that area. Natural selection is that, all those who do not posses the better gene, will be killed off or die from competition with the other race. Mutations are changes in the genes or chromosomes caused by radiation, chemicals or unknown agent. Often simple miscopying of the genetic material causes them. Mutations cause cancer but few if any have been proven to be "good" for an organism. Recent scientific evidence has shown that the survival of ALL living organisms depends on an incredibly complex DNA REPAIR mechanism that actually cuts damaged (mutated) sections of DNA out of chromosomes and replaces them with a perfect patch! There is a human disease called xeroderma pigmentosa in which the DNA repair mechanism is inactive. These people generally die from mutations caused in part by occasional exposure to the sun. The DNA repair mechanism is very effective, but isn't perfect; mutations have been shown to occur despite it. It requires an immense amount of faith to believe that our body is the result of "lucky" mutations. This is a result not of a large number of mutations at once, which would be highly unlikely, but of a number of mutations stretched out over time. The vast numbers of "bad" ones, those that contribute to the vulnerability of the organism, are eliminated quickly by natural selection, while the "good" ones, those that contribute to the survival of the organism, are preserved.
5.Appendix
How do you explain the human appendix? It's a worthless piece of flesh attached to our digestive system. Perhaps this once helped human ancestors digest things like grass and bark, things which humans cannot digest now. This is possibly just something we didn't need, and was processed out of our gene pool.
6.Extinction. You cannot argue that extinction happens, or that species move about the world. At some point in history wouldn't all the dominant species have taken over? Drive around in the south, and see all the vines, form I believe Asia. These vines are destroying much of the plant life, which then destroys the ecosystem of the animals there, which then die. You would think that by now, most of the less dominant animals would have died out from these, but to quote Jurassic Park "life will find a way". What I am saying here is, should there have been all these same animals existing at the same time, at 3 billion years of life existing, wouldn't there be few left by now?
and how do you argue the Dinosaurs? That they were "pre-flood"? How about carbon dating? What about that fact that they appear in lower layers of the earth than species of other eras? I would find this as if anything, a sign that life changes in stages, and that all life were not alive at the same time.
7. The world was not made by the gods, but instead was the work of material forces interacting in nature. So was first life. The acid called "DNA" can be formed in simple experiments; a great example is the Miller-Urey experiment. Miller took molecules, which were believed to represent the major components of the early Earth's atmosphere and put them into a closed system. The gases they used were methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O). Next, he ran a continuous electric current through the system; to simulate lightning storms believed to be common on the early earth. These storms would be caused by a very un-balanced positive and negative charge within the atmosphere and on the surface of the earth. Analysis of the experiment was done by chromatography. At the end of ONE WEEK, Miller observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed some of the amino acids, which are used to make proteins. Perhaps most importantly, Miller's experiment showed that organic compounds such as amino acids, which are essential to cellular life, could be made easily under the conditions were present on the early earth.