Everything evolves... nothing is the same today as it was yesterday. 
Let's
not confuse the dictionary definition of the word with Charles Darwin's
attrocious concepts that we were all once amoeba and then monkies,
before suddenly popping into homosapiens.

All you're saying (in a straw-man way) is that you don't like the idea of 
common ancestors. Somewhat the same as 'if genesis if false, then the entire 
bible could be false, so that can t be true'. Very pitiful arguments.

There are also
some inexplicable short-term pattern changes that beg the justification
of external influence, or "steering" as you say.

Please show us this evidence for steering and a steerer.

See the 'gap(s)' implied by my statement above.

God-of-the-gaps is also a pitiful argument. You might convince a goat-herder 
with that (who made it up before you, and has been proven wrong ever since), 
but not us.

As to a "steerer" (?)...  you got me pal.

Same goes for creation of planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies.. 
This
scientific knowledge has brought me to my position: atheist 
freethinker.
When new knowledge arrives, I'm totally open to changing my position, 
since
that's the way I gained it in the first place.

This merely implies that you have a belief system....  Welcome to 
"faith".

How is an absence of belief faith?  What is faith?

Use a dictionary.  And please, don't claim now that you have a sudden 
"absence
of belief" in the virtually the same breath you just used to describe your 
belief in
evolution.  To believe in something is in fact a "faith" in that issue. 
Again, see
the Webster's, and do so without being pre-disposed to typical religious 
terms.

You rely on faith, I rely on knowledge. The keyword is evidence.