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ID with a recent creation would predict:
I nite that your predictions are mainly based on a "recent creation", and since most of the leaders of the ID movement seem to reject that it seems more than a little misleading to say "ID predicts" when ID isn't even committed to the most important assumption underlying your predictions.
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1) ID predicts that there will be more extinctions than new species. (a reducing number of species over time).
That may be what is happening now, although the obvious effects of humanity - such as habitat loss - make it questionable how far it can be extrapolated into the past.
Moreover, the fossil record does not support it in anyway, indeed without the assumption of a Young Earth is would seem completely untenable.
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2) Genomes will show fixity with no increasing length of functional DNA except when damaging. (devolution)
This seems to be false due to gene duplication and polyploidy alone.
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3) Most so-called mutations will be found to have always been in the genome.
This appears to be false, and arguably contradicts your Flood beliefs. It would require a maximum of 14 alleles in any species. Bacterial experiments also show antibiotic resistance being acquired by mutation,
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4) Many ancient fossils will be found to also have signs of recent life (DNA survives, carbon dated, found in human habitats)
Seems to be false.
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5) there will be an increasing number of modern animals found fossilized in ancient layers.
Seems to be false.
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6) devolution will become the more observed process, the ability of disabled genes and deletions to contribute towards fitness.(this last point is not common to all ID's but those who believe in ID followed by devolution.)
Seems to be false. For instance, while the acquisition of antibiotic resistance often incurs a loss of fitness in other respectis it seems to be common for further mutations to recover at least some of that fitness while retaining the resistance.
It's really not looking good for ID