SFT: On Genetic Entropy

[RonSewell (RonS)]

@PDPrice

Case studies are difficult because of the timescale involved, but one such study has been completed by Carter and Sanford themselves, and published.

Ah yes, the very study of which you still have not answered the basic question as to how a virus can succumb to GE to become extinct in a matter of years over the pandemic, while preserving for millennia in animal hosts. This goes to the heart of the argument, and is a fatal flaw.

This study has been extensively discussed on this forum, if anyone is interested, just use the search and enter Sanford or H1N1.

What are the fundamentals of Genetic Entropy?

As the Genetic Entropy discussion has been the topic of several threads and also spilled over to unrelated threads, it may be useful to pull together some of the failings of GE. GE misrepresentation: Creation began with a state of perfect fitness. Fact: The very word, fitness, is about the relationship between an organism and its local habitat. It is about being comparatively favored under environmental stressors. It is NOT about being closer to created perfection or about approximating some platonic ideal. GE misrepresentation: Fitness should be defined in terms of real traits and abilities like intelligence or strength or longevity. Price and Carter - Fitness and ‘Reductive Evolution’ Fact: Fitness cannot be an inherent trait because environments are dynamic. This is important, so I will restate it. Fitness cannot be an inherent trait because environments are almost never ever ever static. The very characteristic which is an advantage in one setting is often a disadvan…