Science journalist Richard Milton, who is not a Christian, sums up the evidence for ape-to-human evolution from the fossil record: “The position today is that all fossil remains which were previously assigned some intermediate status between apes and humans have later been definitely reassigned into the categories of either extinct ape or human, and this reassignment has been accepted by all but the most fanatical devotees of this or that fossil…the missing link is still missing.” (Richard Milton, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, Rochester, Virginia: Park Street Press, 1997, 207).
Your family tree does not trace back to apes. Rather you (and all humans) are the result of a special creation by God. You are made in the image of a good and all-powerful God who loves you deeply (Genesis:1:26-27 [26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
See All...). He has equipped you with the capacity to think, love, feel, and worship. That truth sets you above all other life forms. YOU are God’s masterpiece (Psalm 139).