But of course we are talking about hundreds of millions of years of evolution, with small changes possible in every generation.
The long term process by which insects and flowers adapt themselves to each other, or birds to crocodiles, seems to me extraordinarily simple to visualize & explain. Those that adapted survived, those which didn't adapt died off.
I do not agree that we have the fossil record to support your zillions of evolutionary paths. On this we will have to agree to disagree. As a product of public school, I began life as a darwinist, but as I get older, as I observe God keeping tight score, as I unsuccessfully try to reason the holes in evolution, as I study the Bible and history (it is a history book, ya know), I will have to keep my faith in God and literal interpretation of the Book. You may cling your faith in evolution. Go for a ride in the wide open west and look at the vivid colors, texture, and beauty of the landscape and tell yourself this was all by chance and a fluke.
Why do you think that a earth supposedly hundreds of millions of years old would be stable enough to support all those hundreds of trillions of freak evolutionary paths?
But then there should be a record of billions of animals that adapted incorrectly. Instead, we find mostly ordered adaptation that takes place always in the right direction.