I wouldn't bother grilling him on that angelic figure appearance. It will just end up with you questioning his perception of reality and I don't think it will lead anywhere productive. His idea that the Bible is just translated into more modern knowledge is a flawed attempt to reconcile the Bible with reality. Ten years from now if some other astounding scientific discovery is made someone else will try to make it out to say the Bible talked about that too.
His idea that the Bible talks about evolution is completely off base too unless there are some "magical" passages I haven't read. If you haven't read Carl Sagan's invisible dragon in my garage example I suggest you Google it. Next time you run into him give him that example. Something that is also unfortunate is while you may have great discussions with people about religion they have to be willing to actually consider the idea it could be wrong first. I think one of the best thing someone can do to try and prove the truth of ideas such is this is to try as hard as they can to disprove it.
After all if God is really behind it, if it is really so obvious etc, shouldn't it stand up to scrutinizing investigation? You could try offering him that challenge.
His idea that the Bible talks about evolution is completely off base too unless there are some "magical" passages I haven't read. If you haven't read Carl Sagan's invisible dragon in my garage example I suggest you Google it. Next time you run into him give him that example. Something that is also unfortunate is while you may have great discussions with people about religion they have to be willing to actually consider the idea it could be wrong first. I think one of the best thing someone can do to try and prove the truth of ideas such is this is to try as hard as they can to disprove it.
After all if God is really behind it, if it is really so obvious etc, shouldn't it stand up to scrutinizing investigation? You could try offering him that challenge.
