Just an Animal?

Here is a recent post from the RD site:

This nitpicking the ToE is just a sideshow put on by the Theists to get their minds off the central problem that humans are not 'made' in the image of their deity, but descendent from apes. DNA evidence is fact beyond any theory. From these facts, we can also make conclusive inferences that also count as facts, just as we make conclusive inferences from the tracks in bubble chambers to establish facts about subatomic particles we never actually see.

It is still theory that all living things have common ancestry because we have not looked at the genetic blueprint of each and every one. Perhaps some scientist will pull up an organism from a deep sea vent and find it can not be anywhere on the known Tree of Life. But we have checked humans and chimps and know that both descended from a common great ape.

Having established that, the problem for Theists is that they do not expect to be "hanging out" (literally) with Cheetah in the next life. There is no provision for chimps to be "saved" even if you trained a very smart one to go through the church motions just as well as a retarded Mormon. The retarded Mormon, supposedly, has that piece of divine non corporality (soul) that the (potentially) more intelligent and functional trained chimp can never have, and thus, is expected to exist, somehow, when both his and the chimps atoms have been scattered into the expanding sun at the end of solar 'life cycle.'

But we know that we all had an ancestor that had to have been "just an animal." This is not theory, but conclusive inference from the DNA. So, somehow, Theists have to dip into a bag of metaphysical mumbo jumbo and come up with when and how in an unbroken chain of mortal reproduction the non corporal was introduced, and how it reconstitutes in each person from a single cell. It is just not there, and I contend that we can conclusively infer that humans are biological organisms that, as all the other biological organisms on the planet, live until we die.