[GodGunsGuts]

If indeed they have been exchanging name tags. From everything I have seen so far, HGT is just an Evo add-on being used to explain why God’s creation resists the Temple of Darwin’s tree of life metaphore. That’s not to say that HGT does not take place in nature, but I have yet to see any empirical evidence to suggest that it could scramble phylogenetic common descent beyond all recognition.

[count-your-change]

That Was the argument being offered for confusion in the purported tree and that's the image that came to mind.

That tree of life picture would only be useful if evolution as described had actually occurred, not a view I share.

There's some excerpts on-line from a by author Zhou that discusses some of the difficulties of demonstrating that HGT has occurred. Cheers.