I don't have to go "toe to toe" with the ToE, I just have to go "toe to toe" with you. It's like the bear thing. You know, two guys, one bear and a race?
I don't think anyone has a problem with the change in alleles part of evolution. I think people have a problem with the postulation of near-infinite plasticity of evolution, and the moral implication of humanity's purpose if we have evolved from lower life forms.
I won't deal with the second, but is there any evidence that there is anywhere close to near-infinite plasticity within any species? Evolution depends on this. Imagine a map of evolutionary paths on a map of craters and mountains. There are pools of paths that intersect for each crater, which represents a species, but there would be few that go from one species to another, or over a mountain. Otherwise we would not observe the stability of species we see today. Or do you see things differently?