Just pick one! They are both valid theorem for the people who believe in them. Sorry I don't have any particular websites for you but if you use your search engine and I'm sure you will find millions.
The two books you need to read are: The Origin Of The Species by Charles Darwin, this explains the theory of evolution and The Bible by Various Authors, this will explain the theory of creationism.
Personally I take a very rational view of this subject: who cares where we came from, we are here now so lets just get on with it!
2006-07-14 11:06:06
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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all the evidence points to evolution
of course, if you want to believe a theory based on a single page of text from a 2,000 year old book written in a dead language by a culture that had only recently invented the wheel - well, there is no accounting for taste
2006-07-14 21:44:57
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answer #3
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answered by Epidavros 4
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Do you have enough faith to believe that living species are *not* the product of evolution? To believe that, you'd have to believe all of the following and more:
1: That even though we can directly observe evolution occurring today, it didn't happen before people began to study it;
2: That the evidence of constant change throughout the fossil record is *not* evidence for evolution, even though constant change in the fossil record is exactly what evolution would produce;
3: That the fact that living species are more different from today's species the further back you look in the fossil record is *not* evidence for evolution, even though this is exactly what evolutionary theory predicts;
4: That the large numbers of unique species which inhabit remote islands and lakes are *not* evidence for evolution, even though this is exactly what we would expect to see if species had evolved there in isolation;
5: That whenever we find new species in the fossil record arising geographically close to other, similar species, exactly as would be expected if the one had evolved from the other, this is actually just an amazing coincidence;
6: That although we find similar species inhabiting different ecological niches in one area, exactly as would be expected if they all evolved and diversified from a common ancestor, this is actually just another amazing coincidence;
7: That even though the evolutionary explanation for the fossil record is consistent with other, independent scientific theories, e.g. plate tectonics, this is just another amazing coincidence;
8: That although the transitional fossils discovered by palaeontologists fill in gaps in the fossil record as predicted by evolutionary theory, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
9: That although we *never* find fossils in rocks which are older than their presumed evolutionary ancestors, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
10: That some mechanism exists in living organisms to limit mutation and inheritance, and thus prevent evolution, even though no such mechanism has ever been discovered;
11: That although different continents have different flora and fauna inhabiting the same kind of habitat, exactly as would be expected if they evolved independently to suit their respective ecological niches, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
12: That although living and extinct species fit a statistically valid phylogenetic tree, as would necessarily be the case if they evolved from a common ancestor, this is just another astronomically unlikely coincidence;
13: That although the chirality of DNA, RNA and proteins is the same in all known living organisms, exactly as would be expected if they all evolved from a common ancestor, this is just another amazing coincidence;
14: That although all living organisms ever discovered share the same genetic material, as would be expected if they all evolved from a common ancestor, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
15: That although all living organisms ever discovered use the same 4 nucleosides out of hundreds of equally likely molecules, as would be expected if they all evolved from a common ancestor, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
16: That although all living organisms ever discovered use the same 22 amino acids out of hundreds of equally likely molecules, as would be expected if they all evolved from a common ancestor, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
17: That although the genetic code is universal to all known species, which is as predicted by evolutionary theory, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
18: That although all living organisms ever discovered use the same energy storage molecule (ATP) instead of many other possible molecules, as would be expected if they all evolved from a common ancestor, this is just yet another amazing coincidence;
19: That although the many vestigial features which exist in living organisms are satisfactorily accounted for by evolution, this does not support evolution;
20: That although atavisms are satisfactorily accounted for by evolution (e.g. children born with tails), this does not support evolution;
21: That although the embryological development of animals confirm the evolutionary explanation of their origins, this does not support the evolutionary explanation of their origins;
22: That although evolution satisfactorily accounts for parahomology (i.e. similarity in structure despite differences in function), this does not constitute evidence for evolution;
23: That although evolution satisfactorily accounts for suboptimal features (e.g. the blind spot in the human eye), this is just yet another amazing coincidence and does not constitute evidence for evolution;
24: That although evolution satisfactorily accounts for genetic sub-optimality (e.g. why one species of micro-organism has 3 times more DNA than human beings, and 45 times as much as an almost identical micro-organism), this does not constitute evidence for evolution;
25: That although evolution satisfactorily accounts for the high functional redundancy in molecular sequences of ubiquitous genes, this does not constitute evidence for evolution;
26: That although the rate of change in the fossil record is consistent with the rate of mutations actually observed in species today, this is just yet another amazing coincidence, not evidence for evolution.
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To deny evolution you would have to believe all of the above, and more. To say that evolution is false you would have to believe so many staggeringly improbable and amazing coincidences all at once - that so many things are exactly as predicted by evolutionary theory, and yet don't support evolutionary theory - that for a rational person to contemplate doing so would be simply absurd.
2006-07-20 13:14:05
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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