Spore set to evolve to the silver screen

bulls**t.

viruses evolved incredibly quickly, and we can track their evolution almost day to day. why do you think we need 'flu vaccines every year?
it's because the previous strain of the influenza virus mutated, and evolved to be resistant to the previous vaccination.
it's also why it's still possible to get the 'flu even after having a vaccination.

cross-breeding plants and crops to become more resistant to drought, or disease, or insects is another form of evolution. forced evolution, granted, and i'm not talking genetic manipulation in a laboratory - but rather what farmers and agriculturists had been doing for years. seeing one plant that thrives in an environment, and cross pollinating it with another, which doesn't, produces plants that have the benefits of both.
it also produces plants with the weaknesses of both, but they quickly die out and we don't get further "children".

the whole "we evolved from monkeys" is also incorrect, but serves a purpose to be told this way. it's what is known, in the scientific community, as "Lies to Children".
the concept of "Lies to Children" is that we learn from our mistakes. but because we know so much, it's impossible for anyone to be given a high-concept piece of information and understand it completely from the start, so we teach them the errors of our predecessors, and once the understand that concept, they'll start to question the issues surrounding that concept, when we say "well done, you're correct - so here's the reason for the mis-alignment in what you're seeing vs. what you know" and give them another "Lie to Children" that fills in the picture a little more, until, eventually, we run out of lies to tell, and they have to discover the next one for themselves, and to tell their "children".

the classic example of Lies to Children evolution, is the concept of matter.
as a child, we know there's solid, and liquid, and maybe we understand the concept of gaseous. and this is everything in the world.
then we learn about atoms, and how everything is made of atoms, and these are the smallest matter around.
but then we learn that atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons in a "plum pudding".
but now the atom is more like a solar system, with a nucleus and the electrons orbiting like planets.
and now the electrons aren't planets, but potentiality shells.
and then we learn of the further subatomic particles - quarks, leptons, bosons, hadrons, superpartners, and quasiparticles.
so on, and so forth (this is where my knowledge of this particular "Lies to Children" regime falters, but i don't doubt there's more lies beyond this one.)

in evolution terms, the "we evolved from monkeys" lie serves to introduce "children" to look at monkeys (or Chimpanzees - more specifically) and think "we do look somewhat similar in our general appearance".
we didn't evolve from monkeys, per se, we evolved from a monkey-like creature.
both humans and chimpanzees are top of their respective evolutionary ladders. they are as evolved as us, but they have evolved to overcome a different set of circumstances.
this is true of EVERY living thing on the planet. a slug is as evolved as we are, just evolved with a different "set of goals" in mind.
and as Lord Haart stated, the "goals" aren't intended, or pre-cognisant, but rather retroactive, when something didn't die, due to some random influence.

you are somewhat right on the fossil thing (although water is not essential). fossils require an incredibly fortuitous set of circumstances to come into being - that is fortuitous to us, because they generally require something pretty cataclysmic to the creature that ends up as a fossil. usually a flood, volcano, or avalanche are the primary widescale events, but sometimes more localised events - a sinkhole, for example.
i wouldn't doubt for a second that the fossils we have found only represent a small fraction of all the species of creatures that have existed. many would simply died without a trace.

however, i don't even know why you even brought fossils up as an argument against evolution. what possible reason do they have for existing in the creationist theory?
god's practical joke?

*looks up* i should've gone with my initial impulse and broken my fingers to stop from getting involved in this conversation...

but it doesn't have to happen twice.
(well, not in the terms that both aspects of the breeding pair have to have it.)

what has to happen is ONE creature with a mutation has to reproduce.
if the mutation gives it some benefit already, then chances are it will reproduce more than once (since most animals don't partner for life) and odds are the mutation will carry on.
eventually, if the mutation is beneficial enough, then the mutated things out-number the originals, and natural selection has occurred.

there doesn't have to be a disaster that wipes out the old animals, it's simply that the new animals are more efficient, are able to gather their food more effectively, better able to hide from things that want to eat them, or are simply better able to attract a mate and thus improve their chances of continuing the line.

things can just die out gradually. this is even the current theory (or Lies to Children) on man before homo sapiens. they didn't die out suddenly, and nor did we kill them for being thick, there is vast amounts of fossil evidence that we existed concurrently, and even co-operatively. but we lived better than they did, therefore we survived better.

as for current evidence: how about the appendix organ?
it's original function was to break down cellulose from the food we ate, but as we discovered that cooking things make it taste better, we no longer ingest cellulose, and therefore there's nothing for it to breakdown, so now it just floats there, unconnected to anything.

how about the little toe?
originally it was "designed" for balance, but as we've adopted shoes, there is no longer a need for it, and especially in the western world, there is evidence that it's receding. they are becoming proportionally smaller and smaller, and eventually, we'll only be able to count to 18 on our fingers and toes.