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They're viruses from the same family of viruses. "Strongly resembles" is not strong evidence.

Which you note by pointing out that this is the exact thing we'd expect from a natural event.

>>XorNot+(OP)
This is older but it shows the BLAST of the two viruses. They're more than the same family. RaTG13 is the closest sequence ever discovered (in open literature) to SARS-CoV-2.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...