[firebrand]

I think you are on to something here. And something else has recently occurred to me: Maybe the first people with our DNA who realized that there was a God were Adam and Eve, and no one can really be considered human who does not have the ability to understand that.

And perhaps at that point the species were immutable. The Fall of Man, with our subsequent domination of the planet, possibly assured that the age of major evolutionary changes was over. After all, Adam did name the animals. I don't believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, but everything in there is meant to tell us something, usually something impossible for people to comprehend at that time. Adam's naming of the animals is possibly meant to tell us that evolution--in terms of species' changing--was over at that point.

[b_sharp]

"Adam's naming of the animals is possibly meant to tell us that evolution--in terms of species' changing--was over at that point."

Unfortunately for your idea at least this particular point is that evolution is For a population to not evolve seven conditions need to be met.

1. mutation is not occurring
2. natural selection is not occurring
3. the population is infinitely large
4. all members of the population breed
5. all mating is totally random
6. everyone produces the same number of offspring
7. there is no migration in or out of the population

If any of these is not met, the population is evolving.