Evolution isn't necessarily advancement.  It's random mutations in every direction, and then the bad ones die off, but it doesn't mean we're constantly advancing towards some sort of perfection.  Every species is still full of really stupid errors.  I think the usual example is the really horrible eyeball design of every single species on the planet.  It's a bad mutation, basically a pathetic random mistake, but not so bad it kills us, so it stayed as we brancehd off into every living joke.

And dinosaurs don't turn into birds.  They turn into Dino-Bots.

I've read that line before. I can't rememebr where though. Something when i was in Jr. highschool.

Are you in Britain? The spelling from that text is in British English.
notice 'defence'.

Wait, a minute, I remember reading something like this in my 10th grade biology book. It was discussing the theory of spontaneous generation, which is NOT evolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation#Spontaneous_generation

Edit-Dammit, I was beaten to it. Should read the entire thread first but yeah, this is not talking about evolution so don't try to discredit the subject based on this example. 

 I was gonna bring up spontaneous generation, but you beat me to it.

 The example of maggots just emerging from decaying substances is the classic example of spontaneous generation. 

 Ah right!  Thanks.  That was bothering me trying to remember what that was from.

This book isn't talking about spontaneous generation. Spontaneous generation is simply a sad bullet point on scientific research into origins. Simply put there was a hypothesis that maggots/flies materialize from rancid meat or garbage. The experiment to test the idea was to have two peices of rancid meat set in the sun, one covered and sealed the other uncovered. When both had maggots hours later the researches concluded the hypothesis was true. However the advent of the microscope showed what was really happening.

The only reason I could think that this statement is made in an evolution lesson is because of the primordial soup idea, which is essentially an Abiogenesis theory that points to the origin of evolution.