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14.2 Genetics: Threshold Beyond Probability
The genome is often described as the record of evolution, but it also holds the
strongest evidence against a purely random convergence model. If symbolic
cognition were simply the outcome of natural selection, we would expect a
gradual accumulation of beneficial changes across hundreds of thousands of
years, each adding measurable behavioral innovations. Instead, the data show
the opposite:
Key loci for speech, cognition, and cortical regulation were fixed long
before symbolism appeared.
For over 200,000 years, these capacities lay dormant.
Then, around 70 ka, a cluster of changes suddenly ignited symbolic
cognition, synchronizing with bottleneck survival and cultural explosion.
Mathematically, as we established earlier, the probability that such long latency
followed by sudden ignition occurred purely through unguided convergence is
vanishingly small. The odds that 15 separate loci aligned in both timing and
expression by chance lie beyond evolutionary plausibility.
The Adam Paradox Hypothesis (APH) therefore interprets these loci not as
random products, but as sites of divinely guided genetic engineering. The
Qur
ʾān, serving as beacon, directs us to understand this moment as infusion: the
genome was long prepared, then deliberately activated.