re: 2 billion year old fossils of multicellular life forms discovered

I can subscribe to the majority of the current theory of evolution without agreeing with every single mechanic and facet. To believe that there is not, never was, and will never be a single instance of evolution upon this earth is a pretty laughably ignorant stance. However, someone who subscribes to the former is often thrown into the same category as the latter by many members of the media, academia, and the science community.

Evolution has become very similar to global warming in that respect. Just because one disagrees with one portion of the debate, they are marginalized and thrown in with the ignoramuses who know nothing, when in fact, it is their vast knowledge and expertise on the matter that give them the ability to reason for themselves and come to differing conclusions from the "consensus". These findings should be challenged, debated, and tested rather than ridiculed, ignored, and ostracized, but unfortunately, that's just not the world we live in. Politicized science is and always will be bad science.