ive never advocated either stance, ive argued that your buddy needs to acknowledge that despite his best efforts and fact distortion, the ultimate answer is WE DONT KNOW.
You CAN ARGUE creationism with Evolution because evolution is a sideway of saying this is where we came from. Evolution was brought up because Darwin didnt believe in creationism. To act like they dont both try to reference each other is just stupid.
Evolution happens in species, IMO, but not at the scale the Darwinians want us to think.