according to Genesis, you cross neither the gulf between nonlife and life nor the gulf between animals and human beings by unguided natural processes. God has to speak his creative word in both instances. Without God speaking there is an unbridgeable discontinuity. The image of God in man was not produced as a result of blind matter fumbling its unguided way through myriad different permutations. Genesis thus challenges atheism’s fundamental assertion that human life appeared without the activity of God’s mind, so that there is nothing special about human beings.
