So in short I have a bunch of religious friends, today I explained to them I was an atheist, they then went on a huge rant against me. Now they're against evolution and one of them sent me this link:
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html
He claims this is from scientists. Now sadly I don't have enough time to look through all of this, and this guy wants information immediately, if I come back to him with "yeah I haven't looked over it yet" he'll probably flip it up as win for religion :V. Now please understand I didn't want to argue with these guys never did I intend to, they seem to be perfectly reasonable and nice guys but I never knew they held these sort of unreasonable anti-evolutionist views, I only want them to see the facts instead of having them prance around claiming evolution is false without a strand of basic understanding, also having them call me an idiot for an hour may have been a contributing factor ^^.
On top of the website one of them posed a very simple question which was how did the first single-celled organisms or prokaryote evolve into the first stages of simple animals and different species, well actually his specific wording was "how did the first cells on earth evolve into different species, they're all identical so its impossible".
Now I know the question for prokaryote's evolution is very simple, and I bet the evidence against this 'Debunking Evolution' website is easy to come across, but the reason I'm asking you guys is because I know if I don't present the evidence correctly these guys aren't going to listen to reason and I only have one shot at this. So essentially I'm just asking for the knowledge but better presented to answer their questions, and refute this website,basically in an easy to explain manner so these guys won't resort to the cliche claims like "I don't think this counts as evidence" or "this requires the same amount of faith as religion" links are appreciated obviously linking them to this thread would kinda fuck things up majorly.
Anyway thanks guys, you're awesome
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http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html
He claims this is from scientists. Now sadly I don't have enough time to look through all of this, and this guy wants information immediately, if I come back to him with "yeah I haven't looked over it yet" he'll probably flip it up as win for religion :V. Now please understand I didn't want to argue with these guys never did I intend to, they seem to be perfectly reasonable and nice guys but I never knew they held these sort of unreasonable anti-evolutionist views, I only want them to see the facts instead of having them prance around claiming evolution is false without a strand of basic understanding, also having them call me an idiot for an hour may have been a contributing factor ^^.
On top of the website one of them posed a very simple question which was how did the first single-celled organisms or prokaryote evolve into the first stages of simple animals and different species, well actually his specific wording was "how did the first cells on earth evolve into different species, they're all identical so its impossible".
Now I know the question for prokaryote's evolution is very simple, and I bet the evidence against this 'Debunking Evolution' website is easy to come across, but the reason I'm asking you guys is because I know if I don't present the evidence correctly these guys aren't going to listen to reason and I only have one shot at this. So essentially I'm just asking for the knowledge but better presented to answer their questions, and refute this website,basically in an easy to explain manner so these guys won't resort to the cliche claims like "I don't think this counts as evidence" or "this requires the same amount of faith as religion" links are appreciated obviously linking them to this thread would kinda fuck things up majorly.
Anyway thanks guys, you're awesome
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