"You have missed the point- adaptation is NOT evolution."
On the contray. Adaptation IS evolution, when looked at over any appreciable length of time. How can you not understand that? If generations of a biological entity can adapt/change AT ALL, it follows that it be able to adapt it's way into a new species.
You astonish me. I find it outside my realm of understanding how someone could read reams of evidence, page after page of explanations, be shown the opinions of many experts in various fields of science, and still maintain "no evidence!" It demonstrates, to me, a truly impressive affinity for denial. I must actually commend you for your capacity for closed-mindedness.
And I suggest that those with the closed minds are those on your side. Our side suggests that BOTH be taught- yours would teach only one.
Adaptation is NOT evolution. I do not know HOW many ways I could say that before you get it.
ANY adaptation is TEMPORARY and when returned to the wild or removed from the controlling situation (positive breeding), ALL forms revert to their natural state. There has NEVER been a situation where that has been different. For example: IF you removed the advances of modern medicine and modern medical science, WE would return to our previous lifespans and body dimensions. IF you stop selectively breeding livestock (of ANY kind), it will revert to its previous wild state. The same is true of plants. The fact that they REVERT is proof that it is NOT proof of "evolution".
Mutations, also not "proof", are "dead ends"- not viable and cannot breed.
So once again, I will state- there is NO proof of evolution and has BEEN NONE since the THEORY was first proposed. Even Darwin died doubting it.