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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

a machine gun. Shooting at an intact object will completely ruin its
structure. One of the bullets proving ineffective, or curing a pre-
existing infection in the body by cauterizing it, does not change the
result. The organism would already be ruined by the remaining 99
bullets that hit it.

Lynn Margulis, a member of the US National Academy of Sci-
ences, has made the following confession regarding the evident

harmful effects of mutations:

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring
that are impaired. (Lynn Margulis, quoted in Darry Madden,
UMass Scientist to Lead Debate on Evolutionary Theory, Brat-
tleboro (Vt.) Reformer, February 3, 2006)

Also in an interview in 2011, Margulis emphasized the fact that
"there is no evidence" indicating that mutations modify organisms

and thus give rise to new species:

[N]eo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations

occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again
that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary
change-led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evi-
dence. (Lynn Margulis quoted in "Lynn Margulis: Q + A," Dis-
cover Magazine, April 2011, p. 68)

As Margulis stated, there is not a single evidence showing that

random mutations lead to evolutionary changes, which in turn lead
to the emergence of new species.
Indeed, no beneficial mutation – one that would advance the

genetic code – has ever been observed. All mutations have proved to
be harmful. It is now understood that mutation, which is presented
as an "evolutionary mechanism", is actually a genetic occurrence that

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