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The problem with the 'failed' predictions of creationism is that they are easily explained away with "God made it that way for reasons that we do not yet understand." Transitional species only look like transitional species, it's just a coincidence. When you invoke divine intervention, anything can be explained away. That is one of the reasons why creationism is not scientific.

Yeah, but I like my approach. I deal with the creationoids on the terms they profess to want -- I treat creationism as if it really were a science, capable of making predictions that can be tested. That puts the burden right on them, as it would be with any genuine science; so that any unexpected transitional species, for example, or any evidence of chronologically ordered appearance of new species, disproves their "science." Sure, they can fall back into their final fortress -- religion, and say that it's all a miracle. But then -- ah then! -- we've got creationism precisely where it belongs. In the churches, and out of the science classrooms.