[kahljorn]

"effectively laying the groundwork for the opinion opposite of mine: that nothing has meaning or purpose. "

Wow man reading through what you say your philosophy in life is so dead. The only thing that gives life meaning is having a God? Have you ever read Neitzche?
How does evolution give you that opinion? personally, evolution gives me the idea that life has a ton of purpose, and evolution actually works well with every single spiritual belief I've ever studied. Every single piece of spiritually, even the bible, tells the importance of evolving. Evolving spiritually, mentally, intelligently and even physically. To me that is a huge purpose, and it gives life alot of meaning. The attempt to build something beautiful, rather than relying on outside "Powers" to fix things for you. You know, personal responsibility for the way the world works instead of blaming it all or relying on god. You talk about people doing that with the government all the time, and yet when it comes to this your philosophy is so drastically different?
Why is it that you don't apply your philosophies to everything? I thought that was the point of philosophy?

"Why can't the evidence that led the finest minds in science to the theory that all life evolved from one common form be clearly and concisely portrayed so a skeptic could follow along and satisfy his doubts?"

I think I should address this again. There's more than one scientist working on evolution, some of them may even have different opinions on how it works, or just some other specific functioning of it. If you study ANY science there's ALWAYS going to be more than one book available on the subject, and they will all differ slightly.
Not only that but evolution is a vast subject. It's like asking why isn't there one book for every piece of medical information? Do you know how large a book like that would be? It'd be gigantic. Same with philosophy and damn near every other field of study.
Also, many sciences only care to document their studies and observations, because that's what's important. They might throw in opinions and hypothesis, but in the end the only scientifically valid portion of it is the observances and studies.

Those are all reasons why you don't see a centralized, "Bible of evolution". Even the books of the bible were originally seperated, and I think it took them a couple hundred years at least before they were all compiled into one volume.

However, I'm sure somebody out there has compiled a book with alot of the pertinent information on evolution. Does anybody know of such a book? I think ziggy reccomended a site to you with alot of information on it. In all honesty though I don't think you'll be satisfied with anything we give you, and I doubt you'll even read anything we give you, so what does it matter.
Arguing beliefs is pointless. I don't believe in creationism nor evolution, especially when it comes down to debate. In this argument, we discuss evidence, and you discuss how that evidence isn't enough. You're the one who said in debates finding flaws in the other persons argument isn't how you win. I'm all for aruing ideas, concepts, functions, consequences and whatever other REAL things we can argue(creationism can be debated in those terms). To an extant I'll even argue unreal things, but only if they serve an actual function in the world.