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So, snakes had legs and then wanted to slither, so evolution helped them along by removing their legs. What if some also wanted to have their eyes open all the time?

My point is...God created such diversity with the building block of His creation erector set that one will find almost limitless variety among the fossils and living creatures. I speculate as a Father this was done with Adam (His beloved child) in mind. What entertainment and training value Adam enjoyed while basking in the opportunity of obedience.

If what you are saying is correct, when the world was created, God created all living things at the same time.

So at one time there were T. rexes, modern men, Australopithecuses, modern lions, ground sloths, extinct giant salamanders, etc. all living together.

The geological record and fossil record do not reflect this.

But you are approaching this entire subject from an entirely different perspective than a scientific one. You are approaching it from a faith-based perspective, based on your interpretation of scripture.

But someone else can read the same Scripture, look at the same scientific claims and come to a completely different conclusion.

As someone who believe sin the Bible, the God of the Bible and also believes in Evolution, it has always escaped me why this issue is of such obvious importance to some believers.

I think, from a Christian perspective, the most important message in the Bible is not whether evolution occurred, not whether snakes were created with no legs, but the fact that man sinned, God punished him, God sent His Son as Redeemer, Christ died for us, and we consequently have an opportunity to be saved.

The rest is interesting but peripheral to the main message.

...one will find almost limitless variety among the fossils and living creatures....

The theory of evolution, on the other hand, severely limits the amount of variety.

Remember the "tree of life"?

The ToE predicts that there will never be a fossil (or living) pegasus, chimera, sphinx, etc, because these combine features in ways inconsistent with the tree.

More generally, it predicts that there will never be a fossil transitional between an amphibian and a mammal or bird (ie skipping the reptile stage of evolution), or a transitional between a mammal and a bird (going against the tree)

It does however, say that certain sorts of things must have lived, and predicts that fossils of them will eventually be found. It even says where to look.

Transitional forms between land dwellers and whales, people and (other) apes, and now the Tiktaalik transitional between fish and amphibians have all been found, as per the ToE.

So, to the extent that the vague claim of "almost limitless variety" can be taken as a "prediction" of creationism, creationism is falsified, once again, by the evidence. Far from being almost limitless, the variety of living things is observed to be very tightly constrained.