I get this all the time.
Sometimes you have to use your intillect to make a cost/benefit analysis.
Cost = some arse punches you
benefit = the same arse now knows that the second law of thermodynamics prevents spontaneous generation of complex forms.
outcome - don't tell redneck that "life just sorta _happened_, man" is a patently stupid opinion.
There are times when you have to say nothing and suffer fools.
Other times, call them on it.
Try asking "how do you know that". Or "I read in _Nature_ magazine that there's no research backing you up - what do you think?"
DO NOT TELL PEOPLE THEY'RE WRONG.
Tell them you heard different and challenge them to explain why what you heard is crap.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
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In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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