"My" definition? The definition of a word does not rest on my shoulders. It is not up to me to provide a definition. So it would also go to show that I also do not get to make up my own definitons of words. You don't either.
See, I know what the word evolution means and implies. Not from what people who fear the term tell me it means, but what it actually means: from people who understand it and accept it as something that happens.
I was replying to your postulation that we should tailor the definition of words to that of what "everyday folk"
think they mean....or what you think they think they mean.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people
-Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan