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I asked a question about what we could evolve into, or where evolution was taking us, (which I later realised was asking the theory to make a prediction {a fundamental part of scientific theories}), I got this answer:
Just to add to other replies, the reason asking this question is not productive is because you're asking the TOE to predict something that is unpredictable. Mutations are random, and the environment will likely be chatoic in the long term.
As an example of another theory that works with randomness, take QM. If you have an X-Ray Diffraction experiment and fire one single electron at the gap, it is not possible to predict where the electron will end up. All that can be done is say that it is more likely to end up in one place over another. This doesn't mean that QM is not a valid theory or is not scientific, it just means that it can't make the kind of prediction you want.
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