Those are processes, currently active, currently capable of study. Theories of evolution have no such thing to offer. They can merely look at a static record and make inferences. Big difference.
Over 100 observed speciations are on the record. Evolution is going on as we speak. You may be a deleterious mutation that will be discarded in the fossil record and anthropologists will study you, but my family is adding to the positive genes that will build intellect in future generations.
Nonsense on stilts. All we have is a frozen picture in time about events happening billions of years ago--just as is the case for evolutionary theory. Aside from the fact that there is a great deal better ratio of observed data to potential data in biology, than there could possibly ever be in astronomy.