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

[LeftyMom]

67. You asked a very open-ended question.

That's generally typical when the underlying research hasn't been done, my apologies if I made an incorrect assumption based on your phrasing.

Is your son looking for help with the style or substance of the arguments he can expect? There's a great deal on the internet about both the content and the typical rhetorical strategies of anti-evolution speakers. If it were me I'd look for youtube videos of the speaker (they usually have a canned speech that varies only slightly by venue) and then look up anything I needed help with on talk origins, pharyngula, the RDEF forums, etc. There are also a lot of videos on youtube of people questioning and debating creationist speakers, which should provide some instructive examples of what to do and what not to do.