My background - agnostic raised protestant married to southern baptist. My wife differs from the church doctrine & family beliefs in that she accepts evolution & old earth but she does believe modern humans are a special creation.
1. sermon -
About 10 years ago, in an independent & quite conservative church, the pastor (music minister education) gave a sermon on age of the earth & magnetic field. I was so overwhelmed by the errors in math & logic I didn't know how to respond. The basis of the sermon was a plot of earth's magnetic field strength measurements vs. time. One single measurement from past (1700 to 1800 from vague memory) and a number of measurements in the 20th century. The old point was much higher than the others. The 20th century points formed a horizontal line based on the scale of the plot. A line was drawn to extrapolate the data into the past. The 20th century readings were averaged for field strength & time to a single point. The old point was used for a linear extrapolation. The sermon was on the young age of the earth as the magnetic field would be impossibly high back around the year 1000 (or some time similar).
In our current Southern Baptist church, the pastor has not had a sermon on the debate but has included comments during sermons on other topics showing his creationist point of view.
2. Southern Baptists are extremely creationist.
3. Evolution/creation are discussed extremely rarely. The couple times it has come up (usually by visitors) the topic was quickly changed. I think the major reason is the lack of interest on the part of most people on the topic or to learn enough to have any kind of real discussion. Additionally, the frequent tone in our church (and possibly many others) is the persecution of believers. Evolution/creation debate gets mixed into the emotional us vs. them confrontational attitude.
4. No apologetics whatsoever. This is the "preaching to the choir" assumption that all believe the same without having to discuss background or evidence.
Edited by DavidOH, : clarification of item 1.