Bearing the Family Likeness

The anthropologist Desmond Morris has written: ‘Human beings are animals. They are sometimes monsters, sometimes magnificent, but always animals.’ That statement is correct as far as it goes. We are creatures, made on the same day of creation as the beasts and sharing much in common with them. But we are not just animals, mere ‘naked apes’. We alone, of all God’s creation, have been made in his image: ...God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)