We’ve discussed before the question of what constitutes the “image of God” inscribed in the human body. The issue came up in the context of devotees of theistic evolution like Francis Collins or Kenneth Miller who say there’s no problem for their Biblical faith in thinking God relied on a chance-driven evolutionary process to produce a creature He could relate to as in fact He does to man. This chancy, highly contingent process, described by Darwin, was bound to converge on some intelligent being, but it could have been a squid, a dinosaur, or some other unimagined monster. That would have been just fine with God.
Man stands upright, straight, like a pillar that is upright, which is not the case with any other being, as none of them stand up straight but rather all walk hunched over. And this is an indication of the [exalted] level of man, for man is king over the lower plane of existence, and all serve him….This is called the “image of God.”