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What are you basing this on?

Just a little discourse with your fellow evo's who, when asked what the Theory of Evolution can predict about the future state of man based upon our current knowledge of "billions of years of history," suddenly, well . . . BALKED.

Hey Fester, you're not the biologist. If the biologist guys say that Evolution isn't predictive, who are you to claim otherwise?

That makes about as much sense as trying to build a God-o-meter. But you ID guys say you can "prove God with science", so a God-o-meter must be possible.

Just a little discourse with your fellow evo's who, when asked what the Theory of Evolution can predict about the future state of man based upon our current knowledge of "billions of years of history," suddenly, well . . . BALKED.

I think you are confusing what 'predictions' are. Evolution can make predictions, but without knowing what selection pressures there will be on species. And since evolution takes thousands of years, it is very difficult to predict what those pressures will be. Evolution is driven by adaptation to the environment. Asking evolution to predict the future of life means predicting what the world will be like in thousands of years. Hardly a reasonable request.

Given a closed system it can predict quit well. Such as in computer simulations, I know I did one for work. :) We used it to minimize a function to optimize ballistic trajectories.

It's late here, time for bed, take care.