A crow would build a bunch of nests and rent them out. That’s evolution. That same crow using a stick to dig out grubs from a tree trunk is adapting.
The ROOT of all the controversy over the term ‘evolution’ goes back to the SCOPES MONKEY TRIALS.
The public wanted DARWIN on trial because the media told the public that DARWIN said PEOPLE evolved from MONKEYS.
Which wasn’t true, wasn’t what Darwin said, and the actual concept involved APES evolving into HUMANS, but facts were deemed unimportant during the trial.
The REAL REASON this came about is not because of what DARWIN said, but because of TEACHERS who told their students that (the monkey-humans concept) and the corresponding reaction by the religious community.
SO... because TEACHERS didn’t bother to study Darwin’s theory well and spread their ignorance to their students and because the MEDIA thought it could sell laundry detergent (increase advertising) in their newspapers by furthering the misunderstanding and intentional lies, .... here we are.
Decades later, and TEACHERS and the MEDIA continue to do the same thing.