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Originally posted by Z-man
If one believes in the Bible, the simple statement "Man was created in God's image" implies that there was no evolution involved. Unless God is in appearance like an ameoba, but then how would man be able to evolve beyond God?!?
-Z
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Image does not necessarily mean what you see in the mirror. Any being that created the heavens and the earth undoubtibly doesn't have 2 arms and 2 legs and stand about 6 feet high. In the Bible god is described as "The word", and as "Love". Humans communicate abstract ideas with words, and humans love, and communicate that love using words. In that respect, they reflect the image God as described in the Bible.
Describing a being which is obviously supernatural (since God had to by definition exist prior to the "Big Bang" in order to initiate the process) in human terms is definitely a case of "creating God in man's image" as the title of this thread suggests.