Agreed... Also Darwin’s treatise on evolution was the “ORIGIN of Species” not the Adaptation of Species. So, try as they might they will never convince thinking people that if a Bear falls into the ocean enough times it will eventually turn into a Fish.
I think that species adapt to their surroundings to enable further procreation. But, Darwin’s theory of evolution is not about that at all. It is all about how life forms come to be and how one life form can somehow produce a completely different one. So their efforts to separate themselves from their statements about how life magically appears will be unsuccessful in the end.
… the naturalist believes that beneath every natural phenomenon there exists yet another natural phenomenon. If explanation by reference to an endless stack of large turtles is silly, then an explanation by reference to an endless stack of natural phenomena would be equally so. The naturalist's answer for the origin of life, therefore, is some natural phenomenon. (Which one is not particularly relevant.) When you ask them how that natural phenomenon came to be, their response boils down to: "It's natural phenomena all the way down!"
-Pete Chadwell