bro,
what do you understand by the term "mutation"?
folks understand it as a morphological anomaly, the scientific community, especially the biologists, understands and defines it as the random alteration of the gene in our genome, could be a deletion or an insertion of a base-pair of the gene, the deletion or insertion of more than one base-pair, the deletion or insertion of an entire gene.
horizontal gene transfers in bacteria are so common, the superbug, which resistant to so many antibiotics, is a good example of how mutation had taken place in the natural environment. me used to have a stock of E.coli, only supposed to contain ampicillin resistance genes, that bugger ended up having multiple antibiotic resistance, namely tetracycline, and one more antibiotic which me cannot remember now. anyway, these E.coli are capable of taking in genes. me even made mutation in fish before, me had seen mutation with my own eyes, the agent responsible for the mutation is simply a transposon.
flawed theory? don't think so :o:o:o