(May 5, 2017 at 1:44 pm)alpha male Wrote: The point is that part of the TOOL is testable predictions. Paleontology generally lacks those. Someone discovers a fossil and classifies it. Some people agree with the classification, some don't.
Even in those cases, how they classify fossils is based on scientific theories which, in turn, have been based on prior research testing and predicting fossil properties and locations and such. Not every part of science has to be about predicting. It's just one integral component of it.