That's not exactly "evolution".
“Bacteria borrow genes from other bacteria. “
Hope they’re not like the neighbor who ‘borrows’ the lawnmower.
“They end up surviving.
That’s not exactly “evolution”.”
On the contrary, it is the driving force behind evolution.
Bacteria and viruses are good, really good, at evolving, in order to survive.
We evolve in single generations. A newborn, kept away from bacteria and viruses, allergins, etc. grows up with an inability to tolerate same.
If exposed to such, we develop defenses.
Each cell in your body does this, in an ‘intelligent’ manner. Viruses mutate to overcome new defenses. The war goes on.
That design is the ‘intelligence’ which the creator gave to all life. The creator gave life a primary drive, the will to survive.
Since he created us in his own image(ination), we are able also to create. That which we can conceive of in our mind, we can turn into reality.
The article, though, is about the ousting of someone over debating about an issue that is highly debatable, and constantly in the news.
To repress another’s views because they are different than your own, is censorship.
What are YOU talking about? You have evolution when you have the frequency of alleles in a population’s gene pool changes with successive generations.
I don’t have the feeling that you and I are talking about the same evolutionary theory. The one I am talking about is the one you learn in college if you major in the life sciences.