Not all the claims made by a scientific theory need to be currently testable. For example, Einstein predicted gravity waves as part of his scientific and these were only discovered this year. General relativity had been a scientific theory for decades even though it had made predictions that had yet to be verified.
So what successful predictions has the theory of evolution made?
For one thing, it was predicted that we must have a fusion on one of our chromosomes because we have one fewer pair than other great apes do. Well long after that prediction we found that fusion site. If we hadn’t, evolution would have been in serious trouble.
What else has evolution successfully predicted?
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A biochemical way for information to be passed on from generation to generation that can be subject to mutation
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Shared transposons between closely related species
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The synteny between genes on chromosomes
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Shared pseudogenes with shared means of inactivation
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Incomplete lineage sorting when we encounter three closely related clades.
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Mechanisms for new genes to be created
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Countless intermediate forms in the fossil record including this startling find. In this case, they not only predicted that they would find it but they were able to predict where they would find it.
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Feathered dinosaurs
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The ability of closely related species to interbreed
What could disprove evolution:
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A rabbit in the Devonian
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A functional gene discovered without any possible origin