Perfoming science properly reqires an ability to properly understand and apply the scientific method not to understand and accept the ToE. *Science* and *evolution* are not interchangable terms.
Evolution conforms to the scientific method. It is liekly the most tested scientific theory in exsitence at this time.
Right in this statement, there's a betrayal of immature understanding of science. It makes me ask, "Which scientific method?" because there's more than one--not just the one taught in 3rd grade.
Note, a geologist can't set up an experiment of creating a continental glacier to test a hypothesis. An astronomer can't blow up a star to see what happens. Et cetera. Much of the study of evolution is historical science, and so scientists have employed many different scientific methods to study aspects of it... a fact that is too often missed by lay critics.
This isn't élitism any more than high school football career is rarely enough to allow meaningful direct critique of a professional team. The difference is, in football, fans tend to go out of the way to learn that an option play rarely works at the professional level... but in science, few laymen go beyond what they learned in grade school.