[NobleFree]

How useful is the predictive capability...*cough* how much is it really *predictive*, when it cannot keep track of a difference in 50 million years in the time to develop pollination

When a prediction of time period is falsified, let me know. That didn't happen here.

[grey_whiskers]

*cough* molecular clock *cough*

Assumes a constant base rate of mutations for comparison of alleles and predicting the time at which one species branched off from another.

If the time frame for specific changes such as pollination is off by so much, this throws off the base rate estimation.