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Lynn Margulis, a member of the US National Academy of
Sciences, has made the following confession regarding the evi-
dent 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 or-
ganisms 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 evo-
lutionary 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 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 harms living things, and leaves them
disabled. (The most common effect of mutation on human be-

ings is cancer.) Of course, a destructive mechanism cannot be
an “evolutionary mechanism”. Natural selection, on the other
hand, “can do nothing by itself”, as Darwin also accepted. This
fact shows us that there is no “evolutionary mechanism” in
nature. Since there is no evolutionary mechanism, no such
imaginary process called “evolution” can take place.