"Bruce Barnett" wrote in message
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You can't predict anything with evolution.


Sure you can.


Sorry Bruce. You stepped off the path on this one. You're confusing
process with result. Evolution is a process, and if you assume it's
directed toward a result, then you might be an IDer. It's not a
straight-line process, and therefore by its nature unpredictable. If we
consider examples found as steps leading to a present, we can find more and
more to shorten the gaps, though we can never tell if the creature under
study is specifically a transition toward success or failure.

Pre is before, dicere is speak. All your examples are post-dict.