Something you obviously haven't gotten about evolution is that firstly it's not a process that takes places in a forthnight. And secondly, one subject of certain species doesn't change by itself.
Giraffe's neck median may get an inch taller in a century. Give it five hundred years and you have five inches. Sure, you may not be around anymore to see the change.
A bug living in a monkey's fur carries a virus monkey either is resilient to or not. Those that are not, die. Those that are, live and breed. Their spring are resilient too. Evolution doesn't always mean visible change.
Visible evolution happens mostly visible when the surroundings of species change. If current kind of monkeys have been living in trees for millennias, there may not be need for them to change anymore. Evolution happens out of necessity. It's not a random process.
A monkey with enough brain capacity to outsmart a predator lives. It breeds and teaches what it knows to its spring. Monkey Junior comes after its father and finds a yet another way to protect itself. And so on. And so on. A tedious process that visibly affects brain capacity in about thousand years or so.
So species are evolving all the time. Heck, even human being is evolving as we speak. The height median of man during the Roman times was 5' 4" (a fact, non-deniable). Nowadays it's 5' 9". Women favor tall men (not all, I know). Tall men breed children who'd become tall. That's natural selection for you.
Sure, nothing of this happens by rule. It's more like play with probabilities and chances. But the chance is bigger if the ability already exists. Probabilities happen more often than improbabilities. And THAT is a rule.
But you're right in a way that the newly-found skeleton is not human ancestor. It's more likely the one that was smart enough to dodge the hazard and die of old age.
A post scriptum yet... the fact that a human being sets itself above all the other species is not called proof of divine intervention. It's called human arrogance. Another sign of it is taking this "scripture" more seriously than anything else.