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I agree with you there. Human beings are created in God's image. (As a Jew, I interpret that to mean spiritual image-- i.e., we have the ability to reason and to choose between good and evil-- not physical image.) It is my understanding, however, that God bestowed this gift on us through the process of evolution.

How so? How can one evolve a spiritual image?

DNA similarities show common descent; the closer the similarity, the more recent the common ancestor. If you can disprove this, a lot of men being sued for child support will want to hire you.
To a point, this is correct. Just as to a point what is called "evolution" is correct (I'm talking Micro-evolution here).

There is really no evidence of a shared ancestor (bones don't show that they had ANY offspring period, just that they died), just a bunch of skulls (and skull portions) that scientists say this one is ape, this one is less ape, this one appears to be taking on the shape of being a little more human, etc.,
People (and apes) don't just magically appear; they are born from parents. As we go further back in time, we find the bones of human beings becoming progressively less upright; we find their brains becoming progressively smaller; and we find their teeth becoming progressively more ape-like.
An interpretation by those looking for missing links. Some of those skulls are true apes. Some are true humans. And some are apes or humans with deformities. And some are just scraps of skull that an evolutionary artist has filled in with an artist's conception of what the skull may have looked like (sometimes even including from the skull what the body looked like and what posture it was in).

I don't know precisely at what point on the evolutionary scale our ancestors became endowed with the Divine image and acquired an immortal soul; I don't think the bones will ever tell us that. (They do give us some hints, though-- at a certain point in the fossil record, the hominid bones start to show signs of deliberate burial.) Some things religion can answer and science can't; other things, religion can't answer and science can.
What about when religion gives one answer- clearly- and science disagrees? Ultimately, it is an issue of final authority.