Where did I say anything that could be interpreted like that? Where did I use the word "angels" or refer to any other super being or spirit? Much less put Man in that place. You just pulled that out of thin air.
All I'm saying is that God worked on Man for billions of years, and one day He said "there ... done, I've created Man in my image". Exactly how He did that, and the fact that He used earlier versions of "pre-humans" to do His work is irrelevant. The fact that He did it at all is what IS important. Not HOW.
There are people who believe that God created us, specially, uniquely, with a special plan. That humans are substantially different from everything else created, and that they are second only to angels in terms of closeness in relation to God when it comes to created beings.
You are calling people who believe that dangerous, because no one who believes that also believes that these humans created in God's image descended from apes. Because there is nothing special or substantially different about apes.
Were these supposed pre-humans made in God's image? No. They're not even pre-humans, they're apes. Humans are substantially different from every other being on the planet, which is why God gave us his word and not them, and why God sacrificed his son for us and not them.
But under Darwinism, humans came about just like everything else. They were not uniquely created by God, nature had more to do with it than God (in fact, there need not be a God at all if abiogenesis can be proven).
If that is the case, at what point in the speciation process was God's image stamped on humanity?
You shall judge a tree by its fruits, literally and figuratively.
If the fruits of some group of apes was a human, than how are those apes not special too?