If you don't understand that "micro" and "macro" evolution are the completely different, you've no business engaging in a discussion of evolution.
Micro evolution is the e.coli examples you've cited, with variations developing within a species in response to environment or random chance.
But the species remains e. coli, no matter how long it's been in existence.
Macro evolution is the development of a new species through changes to an earlier species, an alleged example bein ape to man.
Macro evolution is a term used by Young Earth Creationist in an attempt to deny the greater reality of evolution.
By definition "Macro Evolution" is just evolution on a geologic time scale. So if you grant micro evolution, but deny macro evolution, you are by default denying the existence of geologic time scales, which of course is the position of the biblical literalist YEC's.
The two terms have an accepted definition, which is exactly as I have stated it.
e. coli from a billion years ago is still just e. coli. And it will be e. coli a billion years from now. The passage of time's got nothin to do with it.
e. coli ain't gonna turn into a different species.
That is your mistaken belief.
For an interesting study gather a few books discussing the drift of tectonic plates since the time of Pangea. And then do some reading on the classification, history, and distribution of one family of fresh water fishes, Cichlidae.
Today cichlids appear on every continent except Australia. They are very intolerant of salt, or even brackish water, so they did not migrate from continent to continent, nor even from river to river via ocean, and certainly not over land. Anyway, not until man started packing all kinds of different species all over the world via air and ocean freight.
Consider how the continent of Australia separated from Pangea before the rise of Mammalia, and marsupials became the dominant animals of Australia, while they were displaced by mammals everywhere else.
Every discovery made in the field of geology enhances the evidence for evolution.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
