The alleged distinction between macro- versus micro-evolution, or "adaption" versus "evolution" is ludicrous.
They are exactly the same thing, only the time scales are different.
"Adaption" or micro-evolution can happen relatively quickly as new breeds & subspecies evolve in response to changing environments.
By contrast, so-called "macro-evolution" is the same process carried over geological time-periods resulting in new species, genera, families, etc.
But it's all just baby-steps, one little bit at a time.
For example, consider dogs, a sub-species of wolves, evolved over the past 15,000 years though not through natural selection, evolution nonetheless.
“For example, consider dogs, a sub-species of wolves, evolved over the past 15,000 years though not through natural selection, evolution nonetheless.”
When the dogs became birds - it was at the moment one flew by - I came to see just how the small changes add up!
Let’s take the ‘evolution’ concept a little further (or a should say “a step backward’).
Whether it be evolution, adaptation, micro vs. macro, the basic process that has to occur is that each CELL in the creature involved has to CHANGE what type of cell it is and what other cells it is attached to.
WHAT determines this ? What directs the cell to be a different ‘type’ of cell ?
Evolution is like taking a bunch of watch parts and putting them in a box and shaking it for a couple of hundred million years and out pops an assembled watch; or having a bunch of car parts shoved through a building real slow for the same amount of time and out pops a Buick.