[Polycarp]

"The authors take this result as evidence that their in vitro evolution technique accurately mimics natural evolution and can therefore be used to predict the results of natural evolutionary processes. "

Nice assumptions.

[Right Wing Professor]

Nice assumptions.

Nope. Conclusions. Assumptions come at the beginning, conclusions at the end.

Anyway, you're paying games here. You said you wanted evidence of vertical evolution. This is published peer reviewed evidence of vertical evolution of antibiotic resistance; and there are several recent papers on this same system. It directly contradicts your assertions.

[Dimensio]

You forgot to boldface this part, which I'll do for you

can therefore be used to predict the results of natural evolutionary processes.

That "predict" part is important, since it's a way of testing the conclusions (not assumptions, but you've been corrected on that). If the predictions fail, then the conclusions are inaccurate.