> adaptation is the idea that all living creatures have special abilities that help them cope with environmental changes
Close. An adaptation is a structure or ability that an organism has allowing it to function better in the given environment.
> some of these happen very fast, like your pupils closing or opening. others are slow and take several generations. like people's skin color or height.
Nope. An adaptation is something you either have or you don't. It's not a process that takes time, although it may take time to gain the adaptation. Adaptations can be characterized as heritable or not heritable. A tan is an adaptation that is not heritable, but the capacity to tan is heritable. Heritable adaptations are produced by evolution through natural or artificial selection.
> evolution is the idea that all these changes are because living creatures who had a useful, random change got to live long and make babies. those who didn't died.
An individual with a new useful heritable adaptation would presumably have it due to a mutation that occurred in the egg or sperm that fused and grew to eventually form that individual. You wouldn't be likely to see a grown individual suddenly picking up a new adaptation that was heritable.
> also, it takes millions of years for these changes to happen and the reason why there is no gradual change from one creature turning into another is because the change happens super fast so little evidence is left and has probably been destroyed.
I have no idea what you're trying to say here. First you claim these changes take millions of years, then you claim they happen super fast. It would be easier to understand you if you used actual sentences, with actual punctuation and grammar. I get the impression you want reasoned responses, but you can't be bothered to put any effort into the question.
> my information is the most recent and fact-based information available. i triple checked with several scientific communities, journals and websites.
So we should believe you because you're putting the great weight of your impeccable online reputation behind it?
> and no. adaptation is not linked in any way to evolution.
Except inasmuch as evolution by natural selection is responsible for the presence of heritable adaptations in any given population.
> thats been tested too. genetics simply wont allow it. it cant be done.
Please provide a citation for these tests.