Being a layman doesn’t mean I don’t know what I am talking about.
1. Evolution is a theory about origins of species. It rests upon the notion that life came at a long distant point in history from non life.
2. It theorizes that life began with single celled organisms that grew increasingly complex. Eventually, the algae became a fish or what have you. On to the most complex life form, mankind.
3. Adaptation requires only the thriving within species of certain traits. A bill good for seed gathering means that birds with more that type of bill will reproduce more and eventually that species will all have that bill. This is subtraction of genetic information. Not addition. It is adaptation. Easily illustrated through actual experiments.
4. Evolution requires millions of beneficial mutations (never actually observed in nature) with no negative mutations serious enough to kill a species off. Unobserved and impossible.
I have been taught evolution often enough to know what it is. I was raised and educated by enthusiastic evolutionists.
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Adaptation & evolution are intertwined not two separate discrete processes. National Geographic has a helpful page.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/adaptation/
If you have some time read through the article I linked before. It will illustrate better than I can that evolution is much more complex than just a path from one species to the next. For one example evolution involves preprogrammed (instinctual rather than learned) behaviors like bird display ritual and songs, the patterns on butterfly wings which evolve over time without creating a new species. In general adaptation is in a single generation, evolution is change expressed over generations.