Homer: "What is Matter? Never mind."
I think ‘in his likeness’ refers to our God-given ability TO desire, imagine, and create.
I don’t think there’s anything in the Universe that is REAL, except for Mind.
Solipsist?
i’d like to hear what you think is an ‘evolutionary process,’ that God was/has used to create new species from existing ones. that is the technical definition of ‘evolution.’ certainly if you are a believer, you know that Adam (and Eve from him) was created ‘whole cloth’ from the earth. no evolution there.
anyway, leaving that request aside, your statement above strikes me as one similar to a character in a novel i once read.
“’But how can you control matter?’ he burst out. ‘You don’t even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death —’
O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’”
-Orwell, 1984
of course, the idea of that the universe ‘is not real’ or that ‘Reality is in the skull.’ is complete rubbish, imo.
i think CS Lewis has it about right when he says the imagination is the organ of meaning and reason is the organ of truth. both help allow those inclined to understand the reality of God’s temporal Creation.