Christianity and the 10 Commandments

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The evidence for evolution can be made from four main sources:

1. the fossil record of change in earlier species
2. the chemical and anatomical similarities of related life forms
3. the geographic distribution of related species
4. the recorded genetic changes in living organisms over many generations

Natural selection itself is sufficient evidence to explain the functionality and complexity of the biological world.

To quote Stephen Jay Gould and Dawkins on debating a creationist:

"The point is not, he said, whether or not you would 'win' the debate. Winning is not what the creationists realistically aspire to. For them, it is sufficient that the debate happens at all. They need the publicity. We don't. To the gullible public which is their natural constituency, it is enough that their man is seen sharing a platform with a real scientist."

Ok I'm going to interject just for this. Fossils aren't proof of evolution. The bone structure isn't enough information to explain what the organism looked like and we have to imagine it. As for the similarities between organisms, that can't be used as evidence because that's why he theory was developed in the first place. You can't say Darwin thought of evolution because he noticed similarities between organisms and then loop that around to say its evidence. And what does the geographic distribution prove? That animals move. That's it. And we don't have record of organisms changing over time. We have different animals and imagination of transition. Apes into humans? The chimpanzee has 1.6 percent genetic differentlces which doesn't seam like a lot. But that is calculated 48 million nucleotides. A change of 3 is fatal.