If humans get wiped out by a virus, will the apes just evolve and replace us with a similar looking creature?

If all of that happened, then I think only two things could lead to human life evolving from apes.

#1 - Does God want to make more humans. If so then...

#2 - Would God choose to do it through evolution instead of creation this 2nd time around.

I doubt it. For one thing theres no way a virus could wipe out 100% of the human race, and apes are endangered. In the 35 million to one chance that the human race did die of a virus we would be replaced over millions of years on the food chain but not necessarily by apes.

As you can see, in our lifetimes (as in, the human race) apes haven't evolved into anything like us again. Evolution is such a spontaneous thing (by chance, a gene gets mutated, and carries on in a population), no one can know what would happen to the evolution of apes.

Probably not. Humans were a fluke that almost went extinct on many occasions. This has been proven with genetics, they we all originate from the same small population which was bottle necked many times.

If humankind went extinct... I think we would more likely be replaced by Canines, I think they were always are biggest competitor, wolves, but we eventually made a truce ...

Well, nature would determine that. The same conditions over the past 4 million years would have to be the same as the millions of years that would follow the mass extinction of humans. Nature selects those traits that are the most valuable, and who knows what nature would dictate??

Yes

they'd have to undergo the same selective pressures

Even still there's usually more than one way they could evolve in the same conditions we did

so it's highly unlikely

Black widows shall rise as our most fitting succsessor

How would I know

We're all just as clueless as you are on this topic