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tions were harmful while the remaining 1% was neutral. Yet new re-
searches 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
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.