"One of the hardest things to get from a true believer is an account of what evolution actually is, and how evolution occurs."
It can be described in several ways, but change in a population's gene pool through time is as good a definition as any. It occurs through mutation and natural selection.
Why is that a hard thing to get? You could have gotten it from a variety of biology-related websites, and many, many books.
"Everything that I observe in nature tells me that evolution does not occur. Take three examples of birds that were transplanted to the western hemisphere for sporting purposes: ringneck pheasants, gray partridges and chukar partridges. All have been successful pioneers on this new (to their species) continent, but only within the realm of their original habitat."
What pressure is on them to change? And since you didn't have a working definition of evolution in the first place (because it's "hard to get"), how did you decide it doesn't occur?
"They all look exactly like their ancestors, and none have "evolved" the ability to expand their range into apparently friendly habitats that border their range."
Mutations don't proceed with purpose. You have Lamarkian ideas regarding evolution.
