Chimps are pretty smart.... doooiiiii (+ a rant)

I am always amazed when I see footage of chimps, but this one is particularly cool. It baffles me when I get the response, "I believe that evolution exists but I don't believe we came from monkeys." When I see this video I see a cousin. Obviously a distant cousin but the millions of years necessary to create that divergence I think is a reasonable amount of time for such differences to develop. More than anything though, what irks me is the ALTERNATIVE postulated by Christianity, and how it is supposedly far MORE logical. I believe Adam rose from dust, correct? And Eve from Adam's rib? So clearly any literal interpretation of the Bible is perhaps a little misguiding.

Maybe this is straying from Chimps too far to put in one post, but this brings me to something else that needs addressing: If the Bible cannot be literally interpreted, then it is said that its value comes from the morality embedded in its stories. The lessons that can be learned from this book can guide us and help us navigate this confusing world. Well maybe not Leviticus, the often cited text guiding us to execute anybody who is gay, wears vision correcting lenses, cuts or trims the hair near the temples or commits any other fairly ordinary act that happens to make the cut for counting as evil (something about shellfish or seafood too right?). Clearly, then, the good moral guidance from the book needs to be sifted from the bad. So now we're left with a book that advises us to do horrible things as well as really good things. Obviously this is problematic for a couple reasons the most obvious that you could "sift" incorrectly and mistake horrible, atrocious guidance for good and vice versa.
To me what's really interesting about this though, is that in order to do this sifting, you have to make the decisions about what is good and what is bad. Therefor the morality that one gets from the Bible is ALREADY imbedded in you, and interpreting the Bible is simply an exercise in identifying good morality vs. bad morality. This to me is a very convincing argument that morality exists within us, and the very notion of receiving morality from one individual text is not only flawed, but dangerous.