Although man was created on the sixth day of the creation week along with animals and like the animals are dependent upon God for life and breath, humanity differs greatly from the rest of earth’s creatures for we alone have been created “in the image of God.” In the Genesis account of creation we read: “And God made the beasts of the earth…and the cattle…and everything that creeps on the ground…and saw that it was good. THEN God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish…the cattle…and over every creeping thing’…And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Gen. 1:25-28). We were not a part of the animal world that somehow evolved to the top of the food chain (as taught to our children in public school as scientific fact), but we were made special, in God’s image, to rule over God’s creation. We were given the responsibility of stewardship over the earth and the life on the earth. We, being made in God’s likeness, are charged with the duty of acting as His agents in this world. We, as the Psalmist wrote, are the “crown” of God’s creation, not some ape-became-man over millions of years of evolutionary process. “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place; what is man, that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor! You made him ruler over the works of Your hands; You put all things under his feet” (Psa. 8:3-6).