Evolution is based on a model of the universe that claims that all things that exist are mutable, progressive, and prefectible, and that the present is only possible through a long chain of antedent survivors that somehow become complex enough on their own that they were able build consciousness on their own, without intervention outside this process. This model does not account for the reality of emergence, which are factors of complexity that arise out of the void during it's development (sum is greater than parts), or the fact that we have never witnessed, even a single time, a single strand of DNA of one animal become a single strand of DNA of another. DNA can only work with what it inherited. DNA cannot create new proteins that it has no prior code for.