Well said, Pete!

Your throwing crap at the wall hoping it will stick. Doesn’t sound like you are up to speed on recent science. Extreme cherry picking at it’s finest. If that fairy tale works for you, oh well……..

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in *your* philosophy.”

Hamlet is not questioning the limits of philosophy (science) in general, just Horatio’s version of it.

Of course the church “interpreted without justification what they thought the Bible claimed.” That’s not saying much. Anybody can interpret anything without justification if they so choose. The church has a habit of making claims about the Bible and “God” offering up any justification or especially evidence. But that’s fine. To each his own.

But as far as “the legacy of Darwin”, scientists who study human evolution do not claim that humans descended from chimps. No “real” science makes that claim. While you may have a PhD degree in organic chemisry apparently it hasn’t helped you acquire this commonly known scientific evidence about evolution. The claim is (and it’s backed by OVERWHELMING “support from real science”) that apes and humans share a common ancestor. The fossil record and human and ape DNA research is the essence of this evidence. And of course it’s more complex than that. Anyone can easily find this information in many of the peer reviewed scientific journals available today.

Darwin’s great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like sisters, cousins, and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel back far enough in time, we would find common ancestors between ourselves and every other living organism, from porcupines to flamingoes to cactuses. Our immediate evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the “lesser apes” (siamangs and gibbons) as well as the “great apes” (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans). Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos. And that “real science” that you talk about is the fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, that clearly indicates humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya).

https://www.nature.com/scitable/content/ne0000/ne0000/ne0000/ne0000/89011172/Figure-1-626_1_2.jpg

Please read : “The Human Condition” solved…..written by Australian Biologist— evolution at its finest……..

It seems that this quote is more aptly interpreted as man’s folly in thinking that he can figure out God. It’s true that humans are discovering more about the universe, but we are mere infants thinking ourselves clever to pull a plum out of a pie.