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I think he's equivocating on "if evolution is untrue, it changes everything". That statement is literally true in the same sense that "if I'm a brain in a jar, it changes everything" or "if the world was created by Zeus, it changes everything" are true. But that's not what he's using it to mean.
Of course; "it changes everything" doesn't mean "I can stop using logic and just take my preferred fairy tale". There are many possible changes.
Also by "evolution" he means "creating a life from non-life, in the lab, today", because that's the part he is unsatisfied with.
So, more or less: "if you cannot show me how to create life from non-life, then Santa must be real".