This is another interesting verse to keep one's mind open about such things.
Col 1:15
15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
In my view, you don't have to go to a dictionary or an encyclopedia or the unoriginal Greek to understand what image means...
I learned what image means back in grade school...
I've spent enough time in the bible to be completely convinced that God is a Trinity...The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit...We are made in God's image...We have a body, a soul and a spirit...God has a body, a soul and a (Holy) spirit...
We were made after God's kind...Not after a bird's or snake's kind...The bible is 'clear' on that...Birds were not made after a fish's kind...And cow's were not made after a flower's kind...The bible is clear on that...
There is no evolution outside of a species...I think God created the Platypuss just to make a mockery of science...