"A little over 15 billion years ago our Lord said, "Let there be light" and there was light. Then the symmetries broke, separating time from space, matter from energy. Then some millions of years later the light was separated from the darkness, leaving the great background infra-red radiation. Nearly 10 billion years later the earth formed about the sun and gathered to itself the great oceans. Then life was breathed into the clay of the earth, the RnA crystals began to replicate and evolve, found membranes and catalysts and eventually brought forth DnA. Slowly the fishes and the plants of the sea evolved, not by growing bodies from bacteria, but by the children of bacteria being each a little different to its parent. Then by degrees life moved to the land and the animals and plants were created. Then the birds took to the air after a thousand generations of reptiles became, with each child, a little more bird like. Toward the end of this long and grand miracle the apes evolved and sometime after that there were apes that were much like humans and then humans themselves."

Ya see, here again, is a story being told. I've heard a bunch of "stories" like this one being preached like gospel. Well, hey, it sounds logical to me but what you've written here, as if it has all been proven, isn't a fact. Yet it is stated like a fact. Which is the problem. This is exactly how it's being presented to us today and it shouldn't be.
What if when the Bible uses the phrase "from the beginning" it means from the beginning of when God made Adam and Eve, special, in the garden of Eden, a place on earth. What if Adam and Eve were the first of God's people by which I mean the chosen people by whom the rest of the world would be judged? That would mean that ALL human beings evolving from Apes isn't necessarily true even IF evolution does one day prove itself. Maybe the rest of the world evolved from slime and once it was able to support human life, God created humans and placed them in the garden. We have absolutely no evidence that link the bones of neanderthals to human beings, yet, and even if we did, it still may have little to do with Adam and Eve and all of their descendants. What if there were humans on earth while Adam and Eve were in the garden? Maybe these humans DID evolve from apes. That might explain the reason why there was a city already in existance shortly after they were removed from the garden. I'm not claiming that this is how it should be interpreted but only that it could be interpreted this way.
My point is that we have extremists on both sides of the argument throwing logs on the fire when there are so many unexplained questions.
It still seems to me to be a pitfall, one to be avoided. You can prove nothing so move on, you know God created everything, is in total control and can be trusted. Why make a mockery out of His word trying to explain something you don't know. Let the atheists be the prideful ones and the arrogant fools the Bible talks about, not you.