What precludes it from being able to evolve, and still do that?
The purpose of this 'flesh' age, which has a time signature placed. Only those that refused to take this flesh journey have already been judged and received the death sentence of their 'soul/spirit intellect'. God so 'loved' the world that He gave His only begotten Son... And God did not use evolution as His vehicle for Him to come in a flesh body. It is not about whether He could or could NOT it is about what He did and why.