How do I explain evolution to my close minded classmates

You could give some specific examples. One that is often used is the laryngeal nerve of the giraffe (look for the video of Richard Dawkins explaining this on YouTube). The idea is that this nerve starts at the brain and ends at the larynx, looping around certain arteries in the upper chest. In the case of the giraffe it goes all the way down the neck and back up again, suggesting strongly that natural selection caused the ancestor of the giraffe to grow a successively longer neck, while the relative positioning of these nerves and arteries was preserved. Certainly an intelligent designer would never have designed the nerve this way for a giraffe. That's just one example, there are plenty of others.

I am also religious, but I love science. I believe that evolution is part of Gods creation. Consider that maybe?

point to your pubes and proclaim Now this is evolution!

on a side note Darwin was very religious himself and as such there is nothing wrong in believing in both.

There are two separate questions ... actually three.

1. The first is how to make people less closed-minded.
2. Then (and only then) can you talk about *explaining* evolution to them.
3. And finally (only after the first two steps), can you address the question of *evidence*.

There is no point in trying to "explain" something to somebody too closed-minded to listen. Impossible.

So the first thing you have to do is understand the reason for the closed-mindedness.

In my experience, the root of it is a single thing: The idea that evolution is "anti-God."

If someone believes ... as a matter of unshakeable, religious faith ... that God exists, then if they also believe that evolution (or any idea) is "anti-God", then they are duty-bound to resist all explanation with every fiber of their being. Explanations are irrelevant. Logic is irrelevant. Evidence is irrelevant. They MUST consider all such explanations, logic, or evidence to be false. Absolutely.