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To: Tribune7
The ability for the theory of evolution to make predictions is cited as evidence of its accuracy.

One prediction of evolution: Birds will never be born with mammary glands or three earbones, or differentiated dentition. Another prediction of evolution: Frogs will never develop feathers.

This all has to do with Vade's query to gore3000 on whether he can explain why paleontologists are sure T. Rex did not have boobs. It all has to do with the framework provided by evolutionary theory -- this framework allows us to categorically predict that some things will never happen, and other things will.

1,821 posted on 03/25/2002 6:53:27 AM PST by Junior
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To: Junior
One prediction of evolution: Birds will never be born with mammary glands or three earbones, or differentiated dentition. Another prediction of evolution: Frogs will never develop feathers.

Those aren't predictions. Those are observations. Birds don't have mammaries. Frogs don't have feathers.

1,840 posted on 03/25/2002 10:05:49 AM PST by Tribune7
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It all has to do with the framework provided by evolutionary theory -- this framework allows us to categorically predict that some things will never happen, and other things will.

The framework predicts that animals with mammary glands are live bearing. The framework has been proven wrong by living species - the platypus and the echidna. The framework is that evolution is chasing its tail and making excuses for not being able to prove its assertions.

1,958 posted on 03/25/2002 8:17:48 PM PST by gore3000
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