(also for 2) Some areas shrink, other areas grow (tectonics, erosion, sedimentation, etc), on a planetary scale these are tiny fractions of a difference.
Re: 4, not sure what you are getting at, nothing 'stopped' in order to do this.
If evolution theory is to be believed, why have some things not evolved, seemingly forever? Is evolution "selective"? Why are we not continuing to evolve?
Who says it isn't happening all around us all the time. Heck, this week we've seen it all over the news on a micro scale with the new strain flu virus. We even cause it through selective breeding of livestock, pets, and plants. These are things we can all see even on our limited timescale.
IMHO, God created an amazing system of creation that reveals him through complexity and order. His creation doesn't trick us into not believing in Him as some may imply. The more we gain knowledge, the more we learn about Him, not the opposite.
Adaptation, mutation and selective breeding are not "evolution". Wouldn't ALL species continue to "evolve"? There is evidence that many most definitely have not continued to do so.
As for the "stopped": OK, we are still hurtling through space at an untold rate of speed (are we slowing down or speeding up and how can you tell?), but the elements that compose us, our planet, our solar system and our galaxy are right here, right now and are "stopped", relatively speaking, as compared to the supposed beginning point of time/space/creation. These elements had to travel at a given rate of speed to the points they are now in time/space, then form into what they are now, then we had to wait another 187 billion years to see the light from that beginning, according to recent reports of astrophysicists and astronomers.