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who do is the well-known
Professor Lynn Margulis of the
University of Massachusetts.
Margulis states that Darwinism's
claims on this subject are "com-

pletely mistaken." Margulis's views
were also cited in Kevin Kelly's
book, Out of Control: The New
Biology of Machines, Social Systems
and the Economic World:
"It is totally wrong. It's wrong like in-
fectious medicine was wrong before
Pasteur. It's wrong like phrenology is
wrong. Every major tenet of it is
wrong," said the outspoken biologist
Lynn Margulis about her latest target:
the dogma of Darwinian evolution.
[With her theses], Margulis was . . .
denouncing the modern framework
of the century-old theory of
Kevin Kelly and his book Out Darwinism, which holds that new
of Control: The New Biology
of Machines, Social Systems, species build up from an unbroken line
and the Economic World.
of gradual, independent, random vari-
ations. Margulis is not alone in challenging the stronghold of
Darwinian theory, but few have been so blunt. 12

David Tilman, of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and
Behavior at the University of Minnesota, summed the matter up most
appropriately in an article published in Nature on May 11, 2000: "The
existence of so great a diversity of species on Earth remains a mys-
tery." 13

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