[Fester Chugabrew]

Actually, we're at human beings now, but the theory says that something else will come after us.

Just don't ask the theory to make any predictions in this regard, because the subject will immediately turn to weather.

[Shadowfax]

"Just don't ask the theory to make any predictions in this regard, because the subject will immediately turn to weather."

Actually, I believe it will turn to how stupid I am and how little I understand the theory of evolution.

Part of the problem here is that evolution's proponents don't seem to understand what they are arguing for.

On the other hand, if evolution really is abandoning the notion that simple life forms can take on added complexity by themselves through only random and environmental changes, that is a huge victory for evolution's critics. It means that evolution is now becoming so glaringly stupid that even the most simple minded will be able to see it as the sham that it is. ("See, our theory is that life on this planet began very simply. For lack of a better term, as primordial soup in which lived single, one celled animals. Where they came from, don't ask us. We tried to deal with that a long time ago, but our critics were too tough, so we created another branch of science to deal with that. They're on their own. Now, this primordial soup ended up evolving and spawning, through environmental changes the rich, diverse biosphere which we have today. This includes evolution's crowning achievement, man. However, it should be noted that evolution does not require the addition of any complexity into these animals. As anyone by the most stupidest religious fanatic can tell you, human beings are on the same order of complexity as primordial soup.")

Nah, I think we're just dealing with people who really don't understand what they're arguing in favor of.

[Virginia-American]

Prediction (which I posted on another thread):

In, say, a million years our descendants will not have wisdom teeth.

Justification: Very occasionally, even with modern dentistry available, people die from infections caused by improperly-placed wisdom teeth.

When this happens before they have children, their genes are not passed on.

Granted, it's a very slow (inefficient) kind of natural selection, but it is there.

The same prediction and justification works for the appendix, I believe. (Unless the appendix actually does something useful, so useful that it impacts mortality)

(I've seen claims that the appendix has some sort of immunological or e-coli reservoir function, but I've never seen anything that says people who have had appendectomies tend to die before passing on their genes)