Evolution Pt. II

The college kid came and sat down at one of those green chairs we were all sitting on at hastings. He told us that he thinks that Christianity and science can work at the same time. It doesn't work when you take everything exactly word for word, though. One reason, he said, is that Jesus didn't speak the typical language of the time. He spoke something else -- the kid told us what it was called but I don't remember -- that was on par with the ebonics of our day. Jesus spoke what the poor spoke and not the exact language. Then the kid said, "imagine how much is lost in translating ebonics into, say, British english. They are the same language, but you can't know exactly what was said originally because of the great difference between the two."
We told the kid that the guy was a geologist and that it seemed that most of his case against evolution revolved around the absense of fossils of "transitionary" animals. The kid thought for a second and then looked at us and said "mudskippers". He was right, mudskippers are exactly a transitionary animal. Just look at the picture I've posted of one coming out of the water onto land, just as they did originally a long time ago when creatures were first coming onto land. Notice how it is half fish and half land crawler. Then the kid said something scientific sounding which I will make up something for because I don't remember exactly what he said: "And how about the north atlantic parabu porquipines? They lay eggs and yet they still give milk to their young." Then he told us about how a certain group of nomads once sailed and landed in Asia where they met some Pacific Islanders that they tried to breed with, but were never able to produce any kind of children. That is an example of a species breeding until they change enough to not even be able to breed with their original species, which is evolution in action. I told him that the creationist man told us that he believes in micro-evolution, but not macro-evolution, which means that he believes a species can evolve inside it's own species, but not have the ability to evolve into a whole different species. Then the kid started talking about the porqupines again and then he told us about how he is really interested in botony and talked about all kinds of different pine trees and their different needles. I don't really remember most of it, but he seemed to know a lot about trees and different animals and where they came from.
He also talked a lot about iceages. Apparently, humans have survived something like 8 ice ages, according to what he's read. And every time, all knowlege is wasted because everything is destroyed and small groups of survivors have to repopulate the world pretty much. Also, all major religions, aside from in Japan, people have a story of a great flood. He thinks that the people in Japan might have just been in a high area that the flood didn't get to and they might not have known about it or something. I think this is all I can remember from all the things he told us. Eventually me and Angelo had to leave Hastings.