[muawiyah]

He "described" something. That's not quite like "predicting" something. He did not predict that at some future time men and apes will follow different evolutionary paths.

That's something that already happened.

He didn't predict the technology it took to describe the nucleic differece between men and apes. Really blew it in fact. There's not the slightest inkling that anyone in Darwin's day had regarding DNA. Doublehelix simply didn't fall from their lips eh.

[allmendream]

So if I predict that the bodies from a series of murders are buried under the chief of police's shed, and based upon my prediction they dig up bodies; that is not a valid prediction because the murders happened before I made the prediction?

How about the prediction that a population subjected to heat stress will accumulate mutations to better survive heat stress? Is that also not a prediction based upon the theory of evolution through natural selection? How so?