Dust or Monkey

It seems strage to me that some Christians have objected to evolution on the grounds that to believe that we are descendended from some kind of monkey dimished the dignity of Humanity. Surely the Bible teaches us that we were made from dust and to dust we return (Genesis et al). This objection is understandable as an emotional reaction but not compatible with Christian humility.

Ah, but some say that we are made in image of God. Are monkeys, and proto mammals and trilobites all made in the image of God? But surely we do not believe that we are physically made in the image of God. Or that God (pre incarnation) had human form? Rather it is the soul (whatever we mean by that) that is in God's image. We are conscious, social, intelligent, moral creatures (some of the time at least). This is God's gift to us and his image in us whether made of monkey or of dust.