I seemed to me that you were dismissing evolution from single celled organisms, common descent, and human kinship with apes,

I was dismissing Dawkin's treatment of same, not the processes of evolution. My own cells consist of much more than bacteria (or they did as of the last time I studied biology, in 1996). And evolution does not mean that you or I or anyone else is an ape, as Dawkins suggests ie We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we ARE apes... If Dawkins (or anyone else) wants to believe he's an ape, he's most welcome to fill his boots. Looks like he's making a handsome profit from it, at least.

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