My Comment: It is obvious that evolution can advance with the phenomenon of HGT. It can be debated whether the first cells had this ability or whether it developed later, which brings us back to pre-programming or dabbling by God. This is a very long and interesting article about the research recently performed, but I've out the major evolutionary thrust of the HGT ability.

Needs a correction in my garbled typing. The bolded sentence should read, I've brought out the major evolutionary thrust in the article of the HGT ability.