This came to me via Bill Cole.
Rumracket:
If natural selection can add 60 bits of FI in a few weeks, why can’t it add 500 bits of FI over the course of (say) 20 million years?
I have no idea of what the “60 bits in a few weeks” is about, but at least we can clarify the math.
Let’s say that 60 bits are added in one week, whatever the source of this statement may be.
500 bits is a quantity which is 2^440 times bigger than 2^60.
We have about 2^38 weeks in 5 billion years.
So, at that rate, NS would be able to add about 98 bits of FI in 5 billion years.
I hope I made no errors. Just check the math.