The Manufactured Monkey Offense

Seems to me that all the manufactured offense at the entire monkey thing is better directed at that 'scientist' who started the philosophical fad that man was descended from the ape. In other words how is it that we aren't angry with Darwin for establishing beyond (as so many believe) a shadow of a doubt that we are all descended from nothing so important as an amoeba? I would think we would be rather proud of being compared with our ancestors, whether they be apes or amoebae, rather than ashamed as we seem to be. Perhaps this reaction is a reflection on Darwin's major miscalculation how man actually came to be.