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OK, I am open -- provide a scientific alternative to TTOE

They have an alternative, but its not scientific. And they don't like to talk about it directly.

But the cat was let out of the bag. The Wedge Document outlines a strategy for pushing religion, and it was leaked. It says, in part:

Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies. ...
We are building on this momentum, broadening the wedge with a positive scientific alternative to materialistic scientific theories, which has come to be called the theory of intelligent design (ID). Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions. ...
Governing Goals: To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies. To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God.

There is no scientific alternative to TTOE. As has been the case for 150 years, there is a religious fight against the theory of evolution, but on the science side things are pretty well worked out. Scientists are now fighting over the small details; Darwin formulated the big picture pretty accurately.

(A science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions; I can hardly wait. Paging Nehemiah Scudder; pick up the white courtesy telephone please.)

My point which I suppose you can't grasp is that the TTOE is or should be debatable at the very least.

I do not have my own personal "theory" per se.

I do not even like these threads a whole lot because it is like debating a Jehovah's Witness or something. A waste of time, unless you are in it for the fun.

I have my beliefs, and among them is that Darwinism should not be elevated to the point where it is inarguable. That is what is happening today. There is no toleration of dissent.

Ann Coulter wrote about a few fraudulent things in this new book. She had me thinking about some stuff after I finished it.

Somehow darwinism has been made law. How did that happen? Nobody in education calls it a law, but go take a case against ID to a court and learn just what the judges say law is concerning the matter.

It is ridiculous. There should be balance.

ID may not satisfy the question of mutating mosquitos in subway tunnels, or how and why recombinant DNA can be shown in college labs all over the country, but human beings with mores and long held cultural systems are not going to just sit everything out.

There are reasonable persons who have disagreements, and they should not be ridiculed, threatened, or be forced to accept one particular faith in the schools systems on their own dime.

The courts are out of control in this, and just as the lawful gay marriage thing will eventually be rid of, so will the certain other offense that are being imposed by activists.