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An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The findings are published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists examined sulfur bacteria, microorganisms that are too small to see with the unaided eye, that are 1.8 billion years old and were preserved in rocks from Western Australia's coastal waters. Using cutting-edge technology, they found that the bacteria look the same as bacteria of the same region from 2.3 billion years ago—and that both sets of ancient bacteria are indistinguishable from modern sulfur bacteria found in mud off of the coast of Chile.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-scientists-hasnt-evolved-billion-years.html
[Abstract]: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/27/1419241112
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 03 2015, @05:53PM
What's being objected to isn't that natural selection and random mutation occur, that's a dishonest strawman, it's the idea that universal common descent occurred. To conflate the two is disingenuous. So far I have seen very little evidence to support hypotheses of universal common descent.
This is the first time I have seen someone attempt to shoot and move the goalposts simultaneously.
I hope you stretched first.