I wouldn’t be too hard on him. “Evolution” means different things to different people. To me, everything adapts, but what I actually mean by that is that everything mutates. And any “evolution” that takes place, for the most part, is really “de-evolution”.
And often, when people say something evolved, it is really the population that evolved. The population of north America has very much evolved over the last 600 years. But no individual people evolved.
Concur and quite agree that words mean things and some have a tendency to become too malleable.
What evolutionary scientists see in living things and calls “Evolution”, I see as God’s design activating subroutines in the DNA that are adaptability and mean the survival of the species.
Micro = intraspecies adaptation. Observable and verifiable.
Macro = extraspecies transmogrification. Not observable nor verifiable.
Most mutation alleles are lethal.
So-called Evolution is a non-reproducable poly-hypothesis.
If someone wants to believe it, that is his choice. But it is a belief, and it does not make him smarter than someone who finds it incredible.
I have known many snotty, heretical theologians who are eager to curry favor from secular academics by embracing this fable.