Gotta run out the door, so I can't address all your points. But this one - because I consider psychoanalysis extremely flawed, I can't determine motives? That's an odd connection. Just because psychoananysis may be more wrong than right, no one can understand peoples' minds?
The fact is that the TOE proponents themselves state that there is no God in control and everything developed by random chance. I don't see a straw man at all.
But that's not what Catholics are saying. What we are saying is that God may have (may have, mind you) used evolutionary evolving in the way He created the world. There is nothing in the scientific record which precludes a Creator being the driving force behind seemingly "random" occurences.
SD