Please note: Evolution has NOTHING to do with the origins of life, it simply explains the diversity of species on Earth.

Saying Ha! Evolution is invalid because it provides no explanation of how life came into existence! is a fallacious strawman argument because thats not what the Theory of Evolution was made to answer. Its like saying the Theory of Gravity is invalid because it doesnt explain why the color orange exists. Also note that a scientific theory and a theory are very different things. Evolution is one of, if not the most sound scientific facts that exists, because of the extensive reasons listed: -Paleontology (fossil record) -Genetics (comparative sequence analysis, phylogenetic reconstruction) -Comparative anatomy (common morphology, and living examples) -Geographical distribution (Continental distribution, Island biogeography, Endemism of species, Adaptive radiations) -Comparative physiology and biochemistry (Universal biochemical organisation and molecular variance patterns) -Observed natural selection (E.Coli in the lab, lactose intolerance in humans, Nylon eating bacteria, ect... ) -Observed speciation (examples: Blackclap, Drosophila Melanogaster, Fruit Fly, Polar Bear, ect...) -Artificial selection (dog breeding, ect...) Before we go on, here is the definition of a scientific fact: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=scientific%20fact Here are some sources that are published in credible scientific journals and heavily peerreviewed and accepted within the scientific community (any rebuttals MUST meet the same criteria): Evolution is considered a SCIENTIFIC FACT (and a theory) with tons of evidence: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=46 http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html http://www.notjustatheory.com/ http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/evolution-fact.html http://www.nas.edu/evolution/TheoryOrFact.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/ http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_3.htm http://bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/9-12/evolution/HTML/live.html http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/rootweb/evidence_for_evolution.htm

http://www.duq.edu/sepa/regmed/evolution/evidence.shtml http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdf http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/teaching/astr380f09/lecture08.pdf http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/EVOLUTION/B3301_Chapters/b3301_ch002.htm http://evoled.dbs.umt.edu/lessons/printable/Evidence.pdf http://zoology.ou.edu/evolution.htm http://www.necsi.edu/projects/evolution/evidence/evidence_intro.html http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/ED15/01_nature.html http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookevolii.html http://people.hofstra.edu/j_b_bennington/darwin_course/pdfs/Evidence_Evolution.pdf http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/futuyma_theory.html http://www1.newark.ohio-state.edu/Professional/OSU/Faculty/jstjohn/Evolution-Creationthing.htm http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA201.html http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA202.html http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.html http://ncse.com/news/2009/10/latest-evolution-from-vatican-005083 http://www.life.illinois.edu/bio100/lectures/s04lects/25s04jk-macro.html#Fact http://socsci.gulfcoast.edu/rbaldwin/Evolution%20is%20a%20Fact%20and%20a%20Theory.htm http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2486574/richard_dawkins_says_evolution_is_a.html? cat=38 http://salmonriver.com/lightscience/evolution2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent http://ncse.com/cej/8/1/theory-fact-evolution http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/lenski.html http://teachthemscience.org/evidence http://www.csun.edu/~dgray/Evol322/Chapter2.pdf http://www.nebscience.org/fla48.html http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/821/darwinno.jpg http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson3/act2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_theory_and_fact http://www.nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/evidence.html http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Evidence_combined.pdf http://arnica.csustan.edu/biol3020/biochemistry/biochemistry.htm http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/ASTR380/evolution09.html http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/Evolution.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100701145519.htm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,424942,00.html http://chem.tufts.edu/science/evolution/Vuletic.htm http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/evolution/teaching/te2.htm http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/ED15/01_nature.html http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622882/description#description

DNA and Genetic evidence that is conclusive: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1235277/pdf/AJHGv68p444.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC52649/pdf/pnas01070-0197.pdf http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/teaching/astr380f09/slides08.pdf http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72302/1/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00118.x.pdf http://genome.cshlp.org/content/13/5/813.full.pdf+html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section4.html#protein_redundancy http://www.life.illinois.edu/bio100/lectures/sp98lects/25s98evidence.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section4.html#refs http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10049 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7055/pdf/nature04000.pdf http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/interests/aaa/marksaaa99.htm http://www.pnas.org/content/77/4/2129.full.pdf+html http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/91/3/221.long http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/DNA/ http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/3/512.full.pdf+html https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/malhi/www/MalhiLab/downloads/Malhi%20et%20al%202006.pdf http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/1.full.pdf http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/6/481.full.pdf+html http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/molb.ws.pdf http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm http://dev.biologists.org/content/127/24/5233.full.pdf http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom.html http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0010056 http://phylointelligence.org/combined.html http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/10/7994 http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1zeWWIm5M http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/ingman.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7055/pdf/nature04072.pdf http://www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/pdf/Stoneking_mtDNA_review.pdf http://arts.anu.edu.au/grovco/Goodman%20et%20al.pdf http://lacim.uqam.ca/~chauve/Enseignement/BIF7001/H04/Documents/Wolf-TIG18.pdf http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/092547739600514X http://mbe.library.arizona.edu/data/1992/0903/7avis.pdf http://www.faculty.biol.ttu.edu/Strauss/Pubs/Papers/2001BellEtal.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387345/pdf/1014894.pdf http://dev.biologists.org/content/116/2/289.full.pdf http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/235.abstract http://454.com/downloads/news-events/mtDNANeandertalarticle.pdf http://www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/pdf/Stoneking_mtDNA_review.pdf http://bioinformatica.uab.es/base/documents%5CmasterGP%5CNeandertalGenome.pdf http://genomebiology.com/content/pdf/gb-2003-4-2-r12.pdf/content/pdf/gb-2003-4-2-r12.pdf http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/teaching/L4/Evolution/Session4/

CopperandPenny.pdf http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/teaching/L3/tutorials/feduccia/feduccia.html http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kjohnson/kpj_pdfs/Syst.Biol.2001.pdf

Macroevolution has been observed and is proven (Transitional fossils and Speciation): http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028184.300-lab-yeast-make-evolutionary-leap-tomulticellularity.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110413132949.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3790531.stm http://myxo.css.msu.edu/lenski/pdf/2004,%20Plant%20Breeding%20Reviews,%20Lenski.pdf http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB901.html http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB910.html http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC200.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html http://gambusia.zo.ncsu.edu/Evolution_2007.pdf http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/~reich/2008_Nature_Wakeley_Correspondence.pdf http://www.nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/speciation.html http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100201_speciation http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/_0_0/lines_03 http://transitionalfossils.com/ http://bio.sunyorange.edu/updated2/creationism/creation%20science/fossils/16_hominids.htm http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/humanevol.html http://www.becominghuman.org/ http://australianmuseum.net.au/Humans-are-apes-Great-Apes http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_07 http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/lines/IAtransitional.shtml http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/lines/IAtransitional2.shtml http://chem.tufts.edu/science/evolution/fish-amphibian-transition.htm http://www.wou.edu/~smithr/311%20HUMAN%20EVOLUTION/human_v_hominin_evolution.pdf http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2010/04/08/tech-fossil-human-ancestor.html http://www.livescience.com/3306-fossils-reveal-truth-darwin-theory.html http://www.jstor.org/pss/4448413 http://ncse.com/creationism/analysis/sequence-transitional-fossils http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/ad_hoc/36400500Publications/HCK/PNAS2002.pdf http://bill.srnr.arizona.edu/classes/182h/Vertebrate%20Evolution/Water%20to%20Land.pdf http://hcgs.unh.edu/staff/kocher/pdfs/Kocher2004.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/74/9/3942.full.pdf http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081015144123.htm http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%2915211878%28199805%2920:5%3C371::AID-BIES4%3E3.0.CO;2-R/abstract http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/

http://www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/clark/gobipteryx.pdf http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~cmchuong/Longirostravis%20Naturwissenschaften%202004.pdf http://www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/clark/troodont.pdf http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/aa/Files/pmakovicky/Xu_et_al_2002a.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/96/13/7604.full? ijkey=0ff36387ea6d9f00647e9a5f87cd03031167d79b http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/6/reviews/1017 http://email.eva.mpg.de/~paabo/pdf1/Ingman_MitNat_2000.pdf http://genomebiology.com/2001/2/6/reviews/1017 http://www.pnas.org/content/96/13/7117.full

All living things on Earth have a common ancestor. So stop it with the Microevolution is real but Macroevolution isnt crap. Here are some sources that are published in credible scientific journals and heavily peer-reviewed and accepted within the scientific community: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section1.html http://ncse.com/creationism/analysis/universal-common-descent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0UGpcea8Zg http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/26.full.pdf+html http://phylointelligence.org/combined.html http://www.pnas.org/content/95/12/6854.full.pdf+html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10851188?dopt=Abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/98/3/805.full.pdf+html http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/poolepaper.html http://www.biology-direct.com/content/pdf/1745-6150-3-29.pdf http://mansfield.osu.edu/~sabedon/campbl26.htm http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AbioticSynthesis.html#LUCA http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Universal_common_ancestor/ http://www.pnas.org/content/92/7/2441 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee-human_last_common_ancestor http://shiva.msu.montana.edu/courses/mb428_537_2010_fall/ToL.pdf http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v28/n3/full/ng0701_281.html http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~nigel/courses/598BIO/498BIOonline-essays/hw2/files/HW2Kanchanawarin.pdf http://www.ffame.org/pubs/pubXX2.pdf http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~desmith/PDF_pubs/expsearch.pdf http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/jeffares_poole.html http://genomics.ucla.edu/eocyte/ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/61192671/Rooting-the-universal-and-eukaryotic-trees-of-life http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995PNAS...92.2441B http://www.biology-direct.com/content/3/1/29

http://ncse.com/creationism/analysis/last-universal-common-ancestor http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/users/ctf20/dphil_2005/CSNs/Minimal%20Genome/ nrmicro751.pdf http://awcmee.massey.ac.nz/people/dpenny/pdf/Penny_Poole_1999.pdf http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/edu/pharm201/10/c23.pdf http://itzamna.cifn.unam.mx/actividades/pre_congresos/SMB_Vallarta2002/Kyrpides/ Kyrpides1999b.pdf http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/3/2/ http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/khuri/HUT_2008/Doolitle_1999.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.151.4553&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://bill.srnr.arizona.edu/classes/182h/EukaryoteOrigins/MyNameLuca.htm http://euplotes.biology.uiowa.edu/web/transitionspapers/week7/PLM.pdf http://www-archbac.u-psud.fr/meetings/lestreilles/LesTreilles_e.html http://theobald.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Theobald_2010_Nature_all.pdf http://bioinfo.uncc.edu/zhx/binf8312/lecture-11-NewEvolutionaryBiology.pdf Lastly, as you can see, evolution is not a belief and it is not faith based. It has tons of evidence. You either accept it as a fact, or reject it. This is NOT up for debate. Until those garbage Creationist theories get submitted for peer-review and pass, shut up.