I like your open-mindedness, IrishCanadian :) First, you must understand that the aomeba didnt spawn into a human, thats impossible on all fronts :-p. Evolution, according to Darwin, was very, very, gradual, the birth of the earth, 6.5 BILLION years ago, then after that, I believe 3.5 billion years ago, single-celled organisms spawned out of a random mutation whose molectular structure changed in such a way as to provide the formula for living, DNA. These mutations probably were not sudden or significant, it probably took many mutations to get the combination correct. The theory holds that life started in the sea, single-celled organisms to small multi-celled aquatic organisms. Then the fish grew more diverse as time went on, and eventually formed into amphibians who can live out of the water for some time but are still dependent on it. Amphibians to reptiles, and the list grows exponentially, taking maybe several hundred thousand to a million years for each stage. 6.5 million years ago, the first human ancestor formed from chimpanzees, our closest relative. Anyone heard of Lucy, or Australopithecus afarensis? The humans, it is believed, originated in Africa, but due to their small brain size and relatively unstable bipedal movement, it was unable to move very far away and had little intelligence. Soon (at 1.8 mya), Homo habilis became from the Australopithacus Africanus in Africa, and from our friend habilis came Homo erectus, who had a better posture, larger brain, and more developed feet. It is believed that Erectus spread from Africa into Asia minor and southern Europe, and that perhaps the groups evolved independently in different areas of the world, with different traits to cope with the sun (Asians have the eyelids to cope with the bright eastern sun, black people have black skin to stop overabsorption of UV rays because of their exposure to direct sunlight). After one more stage, the Homo Sapien Neanderthalensis around 40,000 ya, finally, we, Homo Sapiens, were formed around 3,500 ya. We and the Neanderthals supposedly existed for some time together, but they were wiped out either because of climate change or competition between the species.
You can certainly integrate God into the picture if you wanted, saying that "he tried different forms to find which work best," or "conditions on Earth wouldnt allow him to spawn species spontaneously," or "God's Time and our Time are completely different because of his omnipotence and/or immortality."
Evolution is still happening. Our pinkie fingers are smaller than those in the 1700s, we are fairer and, dare I say, more attractive than people back then, there was an experiment conducted recently involving E.Coli and a group of them, according to the researcher, developed a different method to process proteins than another group. The flu is an excellent example of evolution. Every year we must create a new vaccine to counteract the new variant. Exterminators alter their insecticide formula because of insects' immunity to it. You see, it is impossible for literal creationism to be correct. God's "Static World" wouldnt be able to account for forces that we know exist, such as interspecies competition and climate change.
