“You said, “If their theory is worth anything, it should be able to predict relations of currently existing species.” I answered Thet they could.”
Ok.
What did they predict?
Amphibians and fish share a common ancestor x number of years ago. Go look at fish with certain characteristics. Obviously I can’t know their conclusions but I’d look for gene expressions for lungs and legs. Now fish share those as well as do amphibians. How long ago did this happen? From the answer to that question, I’d go look for rock spanning that age which came from sediment of shallow water bodies’ shorelines.
However I’ve just read this extract so I haven’t got the detail.
You can read the whole thing here:
Marcello Ruta, Matthew A. Wills. Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 2016; 59 (2): 249 DOI: 10.1111/pala.12227
That there are no Precambrian rabbits.