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“Evolutionary Prediction” Is An Oxymoron

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In a previous post one commenter exclaimed: “…it is perfectly reasonable to say that, since no evolutionary prediction has ever been contradicted by data, that it reasonably won’t be any time soon.”

Darwinian theory predicts everything, but only after the fact. It predicts that people will be selfish, and that they will be selfless. Predictions must precede what they predict. Predictions that predict everything predict nothing.

This is yet another example of after-the-fact, just-so storytelling, in the grand tradition of Darwinian logic and reasoning.

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Hmmm...wasn't the existence and location of that Tiktaalik predicted before they found it?

Wasn't an awful lot more than Tiktaalik predicted and has not been found?
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of the branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. -Stephen J. Gould
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What is really interesting is that almost every Darwinist today uses genomic similarity as a fulfilled prediction of Darwinism. But, at least according to "Endless Forms Most Beautiful", the Darwinists actually did NOT think that there would be very much similarity between genomes, and in fact _predicted the opposite_.johnnyb
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