and it will offend them in some way to think that you, who actually claim it is all the absolute word of God - have not. When he points this out to you tell him that the Bible says a Christian doesn't need to read all of God's words in order to know the Word of God. If he asks you where it says that tell him you will get back to him. Don't worry, great religious leaders have been using this bluff technique for centuries and it can never fail since given time you can find a passage in the Bible to support any claim you make. Say that you accept evolution as a scientific fact but that it merely shows God's awesome power For some reason atheists don't like it when religious people embrace the scientific truth of evolution on one hand but claim that God chose evolution as the means by which he would create man on the other. Perhaps it has something to do with the many years that Christians kept insisting that evolution was nonsense until finally the evidence for it could be denied no more. Remember, they are still cranky about religious people's insistence that the earth was the centre of the universe for so long. Not to mention how all those people got burnt at the stake because the Bible commands believers not to suffer a witch to live. Oh - and the way Christians kept trying to cast out demons like Jesus