Of course it can. We can apply selective pressure to a population and hypothesise the likely outcome. You can do this on a small scale in a Petri dish by sele

Of course it can. We can apply selective pressure to a population and hypothesise the likely outcome. You can do this on a small scale in a Petri dish by selecting for antibiotic resistance, for example. And then you can validate the hypothesis by sequencing to determine the exact genetic change which led to the outcome. If you wanted to predict the future evolution of a more complex species, that would be harder. Because we don't yet know what the selective pressures in the future will be, and the timescales involved are much longer. But if you define a set of selection criteria you can absolutely test a hypothesis by applying them today.