I think it's a negative phenomenon in that it reinforces the division between 'them' and 'us' and what is appropriate for 'us' to do with 'their' ideas, instead of treating us all as one species, race, one whole, which is what equality actually is.
I'm all for celebrating our differences...
Have you stayed in the faith you were born in? What made you look for something else? What's it like to know that 'this is it'? Etc.
Just curious as to how bumpy the road was.
How did you come from that conclusion from what I wrote?
Evolution is still happening. It's still going. It doesn't have an 'end'. It won't be over until all life is dead.
Why did you equate science with evolution?
Uh, no. The apes you see today and our species evolved from a common ancestor. They are not the 'beginning stage', nor are we the 'end stage'.
And the apes in between are everywhere. In the ground. There is a whole buttload of them.
They don't 'know'. Evolution is not a conscious process...