I also found that exact same site!! It might have been posted somewhere here...
So if a bacteria adapts and becomes the fittest for survival under some certain conditions, and its offspring carry those traits that allowed its parents to survive, ISN'T THAT EVOLUTION?S
Maybe you want it to be a definate Darwinistic evolution, but i don't. I do not defend Darwin to the tee, I just say evolution occurs, and is occuring right now somewhere.
This quote from your site, How Stuff Works [link below]:
" Natural Selection
As you saw in the previous section, mutations are a random and constant process. As mutations occur, natural selection decides which mutations will live on and which ones will die out. If the mutation is harmful, the mutated organism has a much decreased chance of surviving and reproducing. If the mutation is beneficial, the mutated organism survives to reproduce, and the mutation gets passed on to its offspring. In this way, natural selection guides the evolutionary process to incorporate only the good mutations into the species, and expunge the bad mutations."
"Guides the evolutionary process" is the key phrase.
Here is one more quip from this page on the link:
"Add the dimension of time, and over the generations natural selection will act to change the complexion of each evolving lineage"
now,what was the point again?
Karlin.
Ps - here are more quotes:
"The ancestors of whales lived on land -- there is evidence of the evolution of the whale from life on land to life in the sea "
"The whale's nose moved from the face to the top of the head. This blowhole makes it easy for whales to breathe in air without fully surfacing. Odd as it seems that the whale's "nose" actually changed positions, the theory of evolution explains this phenomenon as a long process that occurs over perhaps millions of years:
'Random mutation' resulted in at least one whale whose genetic information placed its "nose" farther back on its head.
The whales with this mutation were more suited to the sea environment (where the food was) than "normal" whales, so they thrived and reproduced, passing on this genetic mutation to their offspring:
'Natural selection' chose this trait as favorable.
In successive generations, further mutations placed the nose farther back on the head because the whales with this mutation were more likely to reproduce and pass on their altered DNA.
Eventually, the whale's nose reached the position we see today.
Natural selection selects those genetic mutations that make the organism most suited to its environment and therefore more likely to survive and reproduce. In this way, animals of the same species who end up in different environments can evolve in completely.
[k - i just don't see what the objections to this are, god or no god]
http://science.howstuffworks.com/evolution5.htm