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.
Yep. I’ve read articles about modern Europeans are the progeny of those that survived the plague. And all that that implies.
It doesn’t mean anybody evolved, but rather that the “weak” genes died out with the people that carried them.