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appear if this symmetry and order could not be maintained in every
organ of the body. Bizarre structures with its one ear upside down,
one unusual tooth, one eye on the forehead while the other on the
nose, would appear. But living organisms do not possess such imbal-
ances. According to the claims of the Darwinists, everything formed by
mutations must be symmetrical and compatible. However, all muta-
tions are harmful. In the past, it was assumed that 99% of the muta-
tions were harmful while the remaining 1% was neutral. Yet new
researches revealed that those 1% of mutations that take place in those
regions of the DNA that do not code proteins and were thus assumed
to be harmless, are in fact harmful in the long run. That is why scien-
tists named these mutations as ‘silent mutations’. It is impossible for
mutations that are absolutely harmful to form rational, compatible,
symmetrical organs at the same time.
Mutations can be likened to shooting at an intact structure with
a machine gun. Shooting at an intact object will completely ruin its
structure. One of the bullets proving ineffective, or curing a pre-exist-
ing 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 harm-
ful 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, Brattleboro (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