Originally Posted by Morpheus

First, God's Word is true, which He has protected and preserved in the world, and through the ages.
Who Jesus is, incarnate.

Second, people have often pointed in judgement to the Catholic Church, which has failed the Lord in different ways through the ages, but we all have in different ways, also. As the Word itself says.

No one is perfect. No one denomination either, including that, " 1% ", involving "The Watchtower", so called.
Saved means rescued, Grace means, "unmerited favor".

We can know we're in the last days, having to do with the global community and unity in the world, through technologies.
A "Tower of Babel" situation existing. All the world is, "Babylon".
What are we seeing regarding the weather? Climate? About which Jesus Himself spoke of in prophecy, as well as what we read elsewhere, such as in the Book of Revelation.

The "beast" and, "Babylon"? These both involve a united humanity and involving a political system, as someone already cited. The, "Mark of the Beast" is something which will be instituted and readily complied with by most of humanity, as an attempt towards safety, and self preservation.

I've often brought up the Wachowski's work as illustration of our situation, but one might cite other cinematic work also. Concerning "the beast", the movie, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" may be used.
Concerning Evolution, time is irrelevant compared with the greater reality of Eternity.
That which is apart from time, ( and space ).
Humanity is a fallen situation... fallen from unity with God and Heaven, and an angelic situation, and state. This organic, animal/mammal situation is the consequence of "the fall", which began in the angelic realm.
Physics also tell us today, since Einstein, that the material world in time and space is illusory. Or, "The Matrix".

A generated, and lesser reality.