Darwin’s (failed) Predictions – Cornelius G. Hunter – 2015
Excerpt:
This paper evaluates 23 fundamental (false) predictions of evolutionary theory from a wide range of different categories. The paper begins with a brief introduction to the nature of scientific predictions, and typical concerns evolutionists raise against investigating predictions of evolution. The paper next presents the individual predictions in seven categories: early evolution, evolutionary causes, molecular evolution, common descent, evolutionary phylogenies, evolutionary pathways, and behavior. Finally the conclusion summarizes these various predictions, their implications for evolution’s capacity to explain phenomena,
*Introduction
Why investigate evolution’s false predictions?
Responses to common objections
*Early evolution predictions
The DNA code is not unique
The cell’s fundamental molecules are universal
*Evolutionary causes predictions
Mutations are not adaptive
Embryology and common descent
Competition is greatest between neighbors
*Molecular evolution predictions
Protein evolution
Histone proteins cannot tolerate much change
The molecular clock keeps evolutionary time
*Common descent predictions
The pentadactyl pattern and common descent
Serological tests reveal evolutionary relationships
Biology is not lineage specific
Similar species share similar genes
MicroRNA
*Evolutionary phylogenies predictions
Genomic features are not sporadically distributed
Gene and host phylogenies are congruent
Gene phylogenies are congruent
The species should form an evolutionary tree
*Evolutionary pathways predictions
Complex structures evolved from simpler structures
Structures do not evolve before there is a need for them
Functionally unconstrained DNA is not conserved
Nature does not make leaps
*Behavior
Altruism
Cell death
*Conclusions
What false predictions tell us about evolution
