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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 off-
spring that are impaired. (Lynn Margulis, quoted in Darry
Madden, UMass Scientist to Lead Debate on Evolutionary Theo-
ry, 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 muta-
tions 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.
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 beings 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.