"'Tis odd you should say that. Many cartoons have been posted mocking Christians for disbelieving evolution, and proposing that said Christians be forced to forgo the benefits of such things as vaccines, GMO foodstuffs, etc., on the grounds that these items are the fruits of evolution's power to be harnessed."
Well man-made evolution CAN predict the outcome. Animal husbandry, et al. i was speaking of naturally occuring evolution.
This appears to contradict your quote in (IIRC) post 438:
You have it exactly backwards. The theory can only explain why things are the way they are. It cannot predict the path of evolution and it doesn't try to.
Is there a distinction here I am missing, or was one of those two remarks a careless statement?
Full Disclosure: Yes I noted the adjective "man-made" but there seems to be no intrinsic "fitness function" involved: the selection involved is not "natural" but explicitly the result of human decision. There is a mathematical similarity in the effects of any selection pressure upon a breeding population, true; but the prediction here is a result of knowing in advance exactly what will be selected. Cheers!
Sigh...