A Christian who denies desgin, purpose, planning and intention on the part of God in dealing with his creatures, may as well deny everything else in the Bible and in the Christian faith, including free-will (which is of God, not apes), the soul (which is of God, not of monkeys ), Original sin (a choice of free-will), the Incarnation, Redemption, etc.
“made in God’s image”
is the essential core element of a culture of life instead of a culture of death.
Here you go too far.
"God gave his only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish." "Even while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Full and perfect understanding is not promised to all of us, and thank Him, never required of His children.
Argue your issue, tell us how to understand the Bible as literal, but do not tell us that we "may as well deny everything else." That's how we get men like Michael Schermer and lose so many young men and women.
Rom 14:13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.