Ahh yes, but inbreeding only increases the likelihood of there being non-viable offspring. It doesn't say all of the offspring will turn out to be deformed or non-viable, only some. Look at the Royal Family, after all....they have been pretty inbred over the past millennium, and yet some of their family are still pretty functional. It's a probablilty issue, more than anything. I bet there were a lot of cheetah deaths in the past, and if a person could get the data, I bet it would bring it out...
Despite your insistance, problems with the cheetah do not stick any sort of nail in the coffin of evolution, at most, it may make a Ph.D defense project. It would be an interesting project, too...
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Wasn't trying for nails, just a biologist reply. I don't know if we have any of those among 'the usual suspects'.