My Son Needs Some Help. Anti-Evolution Speaker Coming to His School

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50. Thank you.

I have been to a few of these propaganda circuses, myself. I have yet to meet anyone whose mind was changed in either direction by them. The people with scientific backgrounds already know this guy us purveying a pile of crap, and why it's crap. As for the others, he's just preaching to a very ignorant choir. Most of them slept through their science classes, or were never taught the scientific method in at all. Which is why they believe this "creationism" shit in the first place. And, why they don't understand that the Theory of Evolution is irrelevant to the existence of their or any other god. And, scientific theory is not the same as the dictionary definition of a theory.

I agree that it's worth going to this thing just to see how these people operate. However, these forums are poor formats for trying to educate anyone, or to disprove the guy on the stage. Nutting and his ilk are experts at manipulating the facts to suit their views, and presenting them to ignorant people who are only there to have their beliefs validated. Given their lack of scientific education, these people in the audience wouldn't understand why the answers this quack gives to any "meaningful questions" are complete and utter bullshit. How does one explain to the audience, in a couple of minutes, why the arguments that Evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics are bogus, when the audience has no understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

Go. Learn from it. But, don't expect to change any minds.