The new Ebola outbreak weakens an argument often put forward against genetic entropy of RNA viruses

Oh man, that rise in cases looks insane. It’s Müller’s Rollercoaster!

Now compare and contrast what @Giltil said in this previous thread on Coronavirus in India and it’s putative relationship to Genetic Entropy:

…to what he has been arguing in this thread about Müller’s Ratchet as a vehicle causing Genetic Entropy of the Coronavirus.

How about when he created this thread?:

Dunno. Let’s take a look at Italy now:

@Giltil has more such similar threads making similarly ridiculous statements.

Now up above, Gilbert protests me characterizing Sanford’s concept of GE as entailing the inevitable extinction of virtually all life on Earth by asserting (to my honest surprise) that Sanford is totally aware that his GE idea is dependent on factors such as population size, mutation rate, and so one. Yet Gilbert has wasted no time on this forum making statements such as the following many times before:

There are multiple others like it, but one should be enough. Of course, similar statements have been made by Paul Price and Valerie too. Nobody is under any illusions about what GE is supposedly about. Evolution is impossible because life should have gone extinct a long time ago, and is all currently headed for extinction (but Jesus will intervene before it happens).

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