horizontal gene transfer: the real IM? (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 18:08 (3629 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: They then went on to compare the likely hood of a process they have not witnessed to viral transmissions which are on a totally different level. What I see when I read this is: 
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> > "We find a lot of stuff that doesn't agree with the theory of evolution. In order to save the theory of evolution, we have to create some new method that can be neither proved nor disproved to support the theory."
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>David: My point is HGT is accepted as happening. Perhaps God arranged for it when life's genomes were set up.-Which is more likely, that genes were swapped like baseball cards and every organism managed to make them do something useful, of that the "gene pool" is nothing more than a standard collection of function libraries which were used to program similar functions wherever they were needed?

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