"Anyone who knows anything about genetics should be able to recognize that a single strand of DNA (composed of genes and their variations {alleles}"
Pretty much. You must understand that at a single loci (place where a gene exists), there may be hundreds of possible alleles in the population, but only a maximum of two in any individual. This is why the TOE must be discussed in terms of allele frequency changes in populations. The tendency of the ID and CS critics is to start talking about populations and make analogies to individuals. This is a purposeful conflation to make biology look ridiculous and it works for the uneducated.
However, it is not honest and it certainly doesn't gain anything for science or the furtherance of the Gospel.
What is not honest nor fruitful for furthurance of the Gospel is the adoption of evolution into a creation based faith. The two terms are mutually exclusive. You apparently are not familiar with either one.