Are statements like these what you mean by "make them look like idiots for our faith"? Because that's not at all what's going on.
Uh, Mage, did you mean to quote me or pballwhatshisface?
Because I was simply pointing out how, in a very real sense, we are still Apes - the people that use the "descended from apes/monkeys" argument often use it in such a way as to suggest we think a chimpanzee pushed out a human baby one day and that was that.