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Originally Posted by billybob123
The enzyme that replicates RNA (the genomic material) in viruses like polio, respiratory syncytial virus, SARS, has an error rate that introduces one error per replication per genome; HIV is about one per 10 genomes - so if you can imagine a high-pressure situation like antivirals would bottleneck the virus so that only beneficial mutations will survive, then it's easy to see how organisms can evolve quickly. Project that same idea to a larger species with a slower replication time, and over a far larger length of time, and it's not hard to see how evolution produces changes over time.
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Guess what? At the end of the day, they are still viruses no matter how much they mutated and over what length of time and no research today can prove otherwise. No matter how many artificially created "high-pressure situations" scientists create, they can't get the virus to evolve into something else. It's based on assumptions and "projecting ideas"