Is the TOE falsifiable and if it was, would it advance Biblical Creationism

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Maybe He won't. Maybe He doesn't want this problem solved. That's crossed my mind many times. He wants trust in Him by faith. He may withhold knowledge in this particular theologically sensitive area for that purpose.

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Or perhaps you've been mistaken all along and you are following a Satan-influenced false interpretation of the Bible.Perhaps God has allowed this problem to be solved already, and you have been misled by false prophets under demonic influence.

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"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!"
- Ned Flanders"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

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My accusation that ToE isn't science but philosophy, is based in the fact that it's directly tied to the philosophy of naturalism.

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Do you refer to Methodological Naturalism or Ontological Naturalism?

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{edit: In your example it is true that nothing is lost. A mutation that spreads in a population would be the introduction of something new to that population. Why do you always choose hypotheticals rather than something actual? You could have chosen the sickle cell example for instance.

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...or the gene known as CCR5, the identified mutation of which confers partial or total immunity to HIV.

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It kills T cells in the process I understand.

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No.It interferes with T-cell function to a certain extent. It is thought that other receptors can compensate for the difference. The evidence for this is, of course, that people with the mutation live completely healthy lives.The only reason we know that people have been harboring this mutation for several hundred years is because of the recent emergence of another virus, HIV, which uses the same receptor as the Plague and Smallpox.If HIV had never appeared on the scene, we would probably still be ignorant of it.Since HIV is here, though, how lucky for those people who have the mutation, eh?

This is correct as far as I know, Ned.I'll also mention that those with only one copy of the gene are known as "carriers" and are largely asymptomatic. They may have some unusual shortness of breath in high altitudes, that sort of thing.Form the wiki:

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Marine fossils on top of a mountain suggest the explanation that the fossils got there during an episode of marine exposure. Evos say that's because the land that became the mountain formed under the sea. We say if you're going to go that far, admit it was formed in the Flood.

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Why should we "admit" that if there's no evidence for a worldwide Flood?

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Maybe it would have helped if I'd put a smiley after the sentence?

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Oh. Jocularity. I get it.

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Seriously, however, it's a more parsimonious or elegant explanation than having to postulate a different local dunking for each mountain on which you find marine fossils.

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Er, the mountains weren't "dunked", as it were.The mountains used to be sea floor.

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It's just odd that all the mountains with marine fossils were once "sea floor" in their separate localities. But that theory in itself is good evidence for the Flood. Evos are always saying things that support the Flood while denying it.

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As ramoss said, dating dashes your hopes here. Also the ordering of the fossils in the geologic column hits them hard as well.The evidence needs to be taken as a whole, Faith, not in little bits and pieces.As a whole, the Flood theory cannot explain ALL of the evidence.