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random mutations led to evolutionary change-led to new species. I believed it
until I looked for evidence. (Lynn Margulis quoted in “Lynn Margulis: Q + A,”
Discover 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 ge-
netic 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
harms living things, and leaves them disabled. (The most common ef-
fect of mutation on human beings is cancer.) Of course, a destructive
mechanism cannot be an “evolutionary mechanism”. Natural selec-
tion, on the other hand, “can do nothing by itself”, as Darwin also ac-
cepted. This fact shows us that there is no “evolutionary mechanism”
in nature. Since there is no evolutionary mechanism, no such imagi-
nary process called “evolution” can take place.

THE FOSSIL RECORD: NO SIGN OF
INTERMEDIATE FORMS

The fossil records constitute the clearest evidence showing us
that the scenario suggested by the theory of evolution did not take
place.
According to the unscientific supposition behind this theory,
every living species has sprung from a predecessor. A previously ex-
isting species (evolutionists have yet to offer an explanation on how
this species came into existence) turned into something else over time
and all species have come into being in this way. In other words, this
imaginary transformation took millions of years and proceeded grad-
ually.