Welcome MPW,
I'm glad to hear you think of yourself as a scientist. Science is wonderful isn't it?
One thing I'd like to touch upon in your post is the list of six groups of evolution. The Theory of Evolution (TOE) only deals with the evolution of living things. Specifically, common descent with modification over time. The process of natural selection, working on genetic variation to produce a change in a population over time.
The other groups you list are all interesting science topics in their own right, (and we have forums dealing with all of them), but they have no bearing on the TOE.
Since as a scientist, you are in pursuit of knowledge, I hope you stick around and discuss the issues in a less dogmatic fashion. Dogma has no bearing on science either.
Asgara
"An unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates via Plato