[Dimensio]

not saying god is a parlor trickster when it comes to "evolution", but let us say that the finches of note in the article, all "adapted" rather than evolved, because after all this time, they are still finches....

Adaptation, at least as it occured with the finches, is evolution. Speciation need not occur in evolution (though speciation has been observed elsewhere).

[gore3000]

Adaptation, at least as it occured with the finches, is evolution.

No, it is not. The article clearly showed that the finches did not evolve into anything. Now, I know that the article is quite long, but that is not an excuse for criticising it without reading it. Here's the conclusion to what happened to the finches:
And the beautiful thing about evolution is that this is what it does; swing back and forth, and achieves a net gain of zero in either direction.

In other words, adaptation led nowhere.