matt1, I do not have a problem in accepting that man might have emerged from an ape, simply because God created all beings.
if I was God, how would I create one being different to the next, quite simply i would design the first one and after a while I would tweak a bit here and tweak and bit there, and then I have MkII being, I like it, and after a while I will tweak a little here and a little there, and tweak it to create yet another version, using the basic form, just like all cars have 4 wheels, but different shapes, man tweaks his designs and creates different shapes but the basic concept remains the same, so I can explain why man may have a very close resemblance to Apes as God may have borrowed the basic concept of a primate and modified its DNA and created a slightly different being and then like we do to cars given a bigger engine and so on, how can you prove my theory wrong?
of course to prove that my theory is correct, man designs the car first, with basics that goes in all cars, like engine gearbox, wheels, steering wheel, brakes, and so on, later on man also designs completely weird things like tanks that run on tracks, creates a big truck with more than 4 wheels, so lie wise God also modifies DNA heavily and we get things like whales, elephants, birds, and snakes who don't even have legs! my theory makes far more sense than those evolutionist who claim that we directly evolved from Apes due to need to adapt to environment, that is plain wrong, man was created by someone (God) using the base from another creature having been created previously, man makes a hoover craft, and than abandons it, because it was uneconomical and so it is now in a scrap heap, same way God created dinosaurs, they are now in a scrap heap.
Are we not now on the verge of creating super humans ourselves, though if we do, the first thing i would do is ram his ass!
Oh and I bet my own ass, you cannot create anything from Nothing, not even in a zillion zillion zillion x 10 to the power of 10 zillion years!