People are constantly asking me, “Is Covid-19 evolving?” So I went ahead and recorded my answer. In short, no, there is nothing to suggest that it is on its way to becoming anything but a coronavirus. In fact, it should be picking up enough mutations over time that it slowly degrades. In other words, it is on its way to becoming a decrepit coronavirus, given a decade or two. But this does not mean that it won’t find that lucky mutation that makes it spread faster or that makes is more deadly in the meantime.
Links:
- Loess Hills, Iowa
- Preparation Canyon State Park
- Darwin’s finches: see Lightner J, Finch beaks point to a Creator who provides, Journal of Creation 26(2):8–10, 2012.
- Tay J, Reclaiming the peppered moth: designed to adapt, Creation 42(3):18–21, 2020.
- Eacock A, et al., Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour in peppered moth caterpillars is mediated by extraocular photoreception, Communications Biology 2:286, 2019.
- Carter RW, More evidence for the reality of genetic entropy, Journal of Creation 28(1):16–17, 2014. [Deals with the extinction of the human H1N1 influenza]
- Carter RW, Sanford JC, A new look at an old virus: patterns of mutation accumulation in the human H1N1 influenza virus since 1918, Theor Biol Med Model 9:42, 2012.
- Carter R, Is Covid-19 Evolving? No, but it is changing rapidly, Creation.com, 24 Aug 2021. [also a discussion on APOBEC enzymes]
- Carter R, RNA vaccines: harnessing God’s design to help prevent sickness, but will the new vaccine technology alter our DNA?, Creation.com, 3 Dec 2020.
- Sarfati J, CMI, vaccines, and vaccination, Creation.com, 24 Aug 2021 update.
- Coronavirus videos on Creation.com
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Incredibly helpful explanation! Studied/taught the basics MRNA 25+ years when investigating the Human Genome Project – had no idea how understanding genetic mutation and entropy theoretically would be helpful in real life in 2021! (Interesting that Dr. Francis Collins was a key Biologist with the Human Genome Project and is now leading the NIH.) Thank you for helping make complex scientific concepts more accessible to those who want to understand the facts!