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The first one - The DNA code is not unique - is not a prediction of Darwin's. Nor could it have been, since DNA wasn't discovered until 60 years after his death. And, his point is about abiogenesis, not evolution, which is a separate but related field.

Not a good start.

Looking further into the website, Dr Hunter then proceeds to both quote mine and strawman predictions of some evolutionary biologists. A lot. And selectively ignore the conclusions of the papers that seem to disagree with his interpretations. I'd expect better from a Ph. D biologist. Then again, he is a Disco' Tute stoolie, so I probably shouldn't have raised my expectations at all.

Scientists make predictions. All the time. They have to, its part of the scientific process. Some of them are going to be wrong. If these predictions are falsified, it can be just as productive and illuminating as if they turn out to be right.

Should it be any wonder that early evolutionary theorists and molecular biologists made incorrect predictions?

The website is inaccurately named. It should be named 'Some Things That Some Biologists Have Predicted That Have Later Been Falsified, But Still Don't Prove That A Magic Sky Wizard Did It, Or Falsify The Current Neo-Darwinian View of Evolution'.
 
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Let's just talk about the premise here, shall we? The author seems to claim that because so many predictions in evolution have been falsified, it means we should abandon the theory, rather than adjusting it to fit the new information. This is not how science works. Science is about building functional models of reality. We do not abandon a working model simply because individual parts do not work. Regardless of certain parts of the model being false, it is still useful and workable, and even more importantly, there is no alternative functional model. This isn't like in physics, where Newton's theories were retired in favor of general relativity and quantum mechanics. In biology, there is no other functional model, and that a theory which predates so much of its own evidence could still be so right is astounding in its own right.

Many of the claims are minutia; things the scientists in question could not have reasonably known about (criticizing someone who lived before DNA for not knowing about DNA is just silly), minor details that were resolved once more evidence came to light, or the like. None of them overturn the theory of evolution. None of them provide a functional predictive model to work from. FWIW, I'm not seeing too many errors in my brief skim, beyond the big, obvious one in the introduction which I explained above, so kudos for that.
 
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