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The Error of the Evolution
of Species
In all the years of experimentation and research into the bacterium
Escherichia coli, no other species of bacterium of other multi-celled
organism has ever emerged. E. coli has always remained E. coli.
Darwinian evolution. [With her theses], Margulis was ...
denouncing the modern framework of the century-old the-
ory of Darwinism, which holds that new species build up
from an unbroken line of gradual, independent, random
variations. Margulis is not alone in challenging the strong-
hold of Darwinian theory, but few have been so blunt. 212
In "Ecology, Evolution and Behavior," an article in the
11 May, 2000, edition of Nature magazine, Professor Tilman
neatly sum up the evolutionist dilemma:
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