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On a ridiculously long car ride through southern Maryland, my friend and I stopped into a pretty greasy restaurant and had a conversation about evolution oin schools.

I mentioned to him that I had been surprised by the number of people who had testified to the fact that they had not been taught evolution in high school, and he made some very deragatory comments about how theology should not be taught in a science class. Now, I myself tend to choose the "scientific" theory of evolution over that of divine intervention when it comes to creation, but I was slightly alarmed by the way he so readily dismissed the alternative theory of creationism. I told him that there were some ways in which neither theory could be conclusively proved or disproved, and he said that of course, evolution had already been proved. I asked him to justify that, and he, as any good vaguely arrogant post-collegiate would, referenced Darwin.
The trouble came when I asked him to disprove creationism. His response was "well, they ca't both be true."
That wasn't really a sufficient proof for me.