It isnt lateral gene transfer, but that is the only way an evolutionist can attempt to explain it.
Software programmers, however, are quite familiare with code re-use by the same programmer between unrelated programs.
Genes are simply DNA subroutines of genetic code.
what do you mean it isn’t lateral transfer? m I on the right track in objecting to it being called an actual transfer rather than an invasion?
My mind is tired, and I’m not educated In this stuff- but I get this feeling there is an important distinction here- and I can’t quite put my finger on it-
I know evolutionists need for horizontal transfer to have occurred in all species in order for ‘common descent’ to work- and for thigns like ERV’s to be present in several species at the same marker sites- but the fact remains that there are genes unique only to certain species- something Evos try to explain away as ‘orphan cells’, and if everything basically descended from one species, then there would not be as many unique species specific cells/info as there are-
and from what little I know about the subject- many of the supposed HGT’s in species perform very species specific tasks essential to the life of the species, and likely aren’t HGT’s after all because that info would have had to have been present from the very beginning of the species kind in order for that species kind to survive- the species kind could not simply wait around until infected by some virus in order to get that information needed for survival from that outside source/HGT
We’re kidna getting offtack a bit as the article is about the sea bears, but it is kinda related- it would be interesting to see if the supposed HGT’s In the tardigrades are actually needed to sustain it’s life or not- and if so, then how could it evolve from a simpler design to a more complex design if it didn’t have all the needed HGT’s to sustain it’s life I nthe first place