[ml/nj]

You're talking about conclusions made about old stuff which have been made to fit the model. Predictions are about things that happen after after such statements are made.

ML/NJ

[hellbender]

You are so right. The book The Black Swan discusses how easily events in the past can be retroactively "explained," and "confirmatory" evidence discovered, by people who are wedded to a theory.

Regardless of the truth of evolution, the attitude of many fanatical evolutionists is not one of people seeking new truth, but one of people trying to enforce conformity and suppress challenge...much like the Anthropogenic Global Warming cult, or the priestly hierarchy in the Middle Ages.