>For example, laboratory technicians could take a bat coronavirus that is not infectious to humans and force its evolution by culturing the virus with cells that have the human receptor.
That's not "evolution". That's cross-breeding. Genetic manipulation is about as far as you can take it. "Evolution" is a terrible word to use in that instance, but it's not your fault. They've programmed words like this to be "acceptable" "answers" to things they've yet to explain correctly. Long story, so I won't get into all the details.
Short story: Uniformitarians are literally retarded. Basically, sciences' version of the left can't meme