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Squint real hard and take the beginning of Genesis as a tale of solar/planetary formation followed by evolution, closest origin myth I know of.

"Let there be light." Solar ignition. Let's go!

They got the order of life mixed here and there, but at least it started in the sea. Adam and Eve's curse is by far the most interesting bit.

They eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Let's say they were apes before that event and look at the curses laid down.

• Now we know good from evil. Bit hard to argue animals are terribly moral, having a concept of good and evil. Other mammals are close, especially emotionally, but nothing like humans.

• Now our heads are swole with brains, painful childbirth follows. Don't know of any mammals that have such painful, risky births.

• We're cursed to labor all our days to bring food forth from the ground, when before we were swinging from trees, eating fruit and the occasional howler monkey baby. The invention of agriculture anyone?

• Cast out of the Garden, we can never get any of the above back.

I find it fascinating how many factual points they hit without resorting to, "Big god spooged on mountains and giants came forth and so on and so on." (Yes, I'm aware of how nuts Genesis gets down the road. I've read it a time or two.)

If you really want to confound Christians, point out there's a second creation myth 3 or 4 pages later, which disagrees with the first.