Evolution is the King of Wishful Thinking (insert New Found Glory song here)

Alright, my whole problem with the theory of Evolution is the whole chicken and the egg dilemma. Did apes develop large brains before or after their brain cavity expanded to retain it? Honestly, it just seems like an all-too-convenient explanation. I can give you the point where apes develop the ability to use tools to forage for food but there's no possible way you can expand that idea of using tools to the development philosophy, religion, and biochemistry that man enjoys today because those are so abstract that they require more than simple logic needed in garnering food. There are just too many questions I have that really don't work for me. Oh, and the whole mutations thing that works beneficially? How and when has that ever happened? Each and every mutation that I've seen be presented in nature is horribly corrosive to a life forms' ability to function in the wild. And then to assume that this example of a species not only survives to adulthood and then is able to breed and influence an entire population is just ludicrous. Honestly? People really believe that crap? 

You know what this sounds like (I'm borrowing Mr. B's joke here)? It sounds like the Emperor's New Clothes. Everyone is so eager to approve of (or disprove of, which is my understanding of why evolutionists are so up in arms about their theory) this idea that they ignore logical holes in an argument for the mere sake of proving something. That's not science. That's politics.