The "God said it; I believe it; that settles it" mindset rejects the fact that humans are descended from non-human primates and blinds them to the fact that they are shutting out science because of their religion.
Hell, some of them even refuse to believe that homo sapiens are African Great Apes. Why? Because they don't have the self-reflection enough to recognize that their religious ideology is forcing them to deny scientific, factual facts because it doesn't coincide with their unsupported religious predispositions. They believe that God said they are made in the image of God, so they believe it, and that settles it.
Now you may not have this same mindset. But the fact that you believe that you can be made into a "Godly creature" makes me question that.