> In his own "image". Too many people take this to mean bodily image. I can't see the reasoning behind that, and it disturbs me in the ramifications it has for the possibility of other intelligences being discovered in any way. What if they look different? Are they not "of God"?
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I'm not sure whether you understood me to be implying that we're made in the "bodily image" of God or not, so to be clear about it: I'm not saying that at all. I don't think humans "look" like God; I can't come up with a way even to think about God having an appearance in the way that you or I have appearances. Certainly God can make intelligent creatures in any physical form he likes, although I'm not prepared to say that God actually *has* made other intelligent creatures that are alien to us. At any rate, the phrase "in his own image" doesn't at all, in my mind, restrict intelligent life to human or human-like bodies. Although the producers of Star Trek sure seem to think so. :-)

Iss "[Looks in mirror] Hmm...evidently God has a bad cowlick atop his head..." achar