Again - we care not a whit about what you think the right explanation is. It could be Zeus flaunting his thunderbolts or your so called designer. You believe what you believe and although we might not like it, we'd respect it.
It is only when you try to pass it as science are we concerned. Because it is not. Not because we look down upon it. Not because we think our theories are holy. But simply because they are two different animals. If you want to teach it in philosophy or religion classes...fine. There is no way we'd allow it to pass as science however.
A red apple and a tomato are both red, round, and delicious. I like apple and although I don't really like tomatoes, I'd respect people who do. To each his own I say. But if a person then tries to sell a tomato as an apple, forgive me if I say less than kind words about him.
And really...spend some time in the scientific community. We try out a lot of ideas to test things out. We might hold on to a few ideas longer than what is required, but at the end, if they don't work, we toss them out. If evolution is as wrong as you say it is, we would not hold rites to our holy cow to extend its life. We'd heavily modify or maybe discard it.
And the sacred cow of materialism? Just like I said, science is ill-equipped to deal with non-materialistic matter. It is our short-coming, but yeah, it is pretty much the definition. Just like science doesn't concern itself with poetry, it doesn't concern itself with God. Both are beautiful in their own way, but try it as you might, both are not science.
OK, let me see if I’ve got this right.
It’s okay for you to pass off as “SCIENCE” in Tax-Funded, Government-Mandated, Union-Run schools such silliness as “hopeful monsters” and “punctuated equilibrium” and even a long history of FRAUDs like the “Nebraska Man”, “Piltdown Man”, “Java Man, and the “Dino Bird”, but for us to suggest an Intelligent Designer in the same forum is problematic because it is not Materialistic.
Amazing.
Your definition of Science is vastly different from the one I learned; the QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE (the root for the word “science” is the latin word for “knowledge”) using our FIVE SENSES to investigate what we can Observe and Measure.
It seems the new definition of “science” is whatever fits into a Materialist paradigm, regardless how silly, foolish, nonsensical, counter-intuitive, or fraudulent.
Makes me gladder and gladder every day that we homeschool our children and teach them to THINK CRITICALLY.