Human Beings, Chimpanzees, Orangutans, Gorillas are all in hte Hominidae (sp?) or Great Ape family. Are Lions and Pumas cousins? If you consider them cousins, you would have to consider Humans and Chimps the same. Surely you dont disagree with scientists putting humans in the ape family right?
'Scientists' can do what ever they want; can't they?
Who am I to disagree with them??
HOWEVER.......
1 Corinthians 15:38-39
38. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
39. All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.