In the bible, man was created in God's image. Image does not mean a photographic likeness, since all humans look slightly different. Rather image has to do with natural human propensities, common to all humans. God is spirit and not matter. Whereas, human propensities is part of human spirit common to all.
If you look at humans and civilization, the human approach for engineering and construction is based on a logical plan. It is not a random schema. You plan first in your mind, and then on paper, where you do your calculations. Then you get approval from the zoning board. Finally, the plan materializes within reality.
Man in the image of God, would imply that God does creation in the same basic way and that man copies this approach. God broods; imagines and plans on paper, then he builds; let their be light. The foundation of civilization is based on creating, planning, peer reviewing, and then implementing. This is the overall approach of Genesis, with the details being an early prototype for planning; civilization.
The atheist approach is to use an underlying mechanism, that plays the role of God but without any personification. This mechanism is based on statistics and randomness, to help create life or build planets. If man was created in the image of this God; the god of random, we would have no plan, but we would go right to production on a whim, with the hope something will work, someday. Many empirical experiments use this approach. However, Civilization would not exist with this schema, alone. It is too slow and unreliable.
The paradox is the pseudo god of random, which is the natural mechanism used to explain how unique things come to be, was able to create a human race, that is able to plan. This is part of the atheist mythology, where the natural creation, from random, called man, supersedes the god of random. Man can plan, test and build, all based on knowledge of the laws of physics and directed choice. This is better than random; man becomes better than a god of random, and improves the flaws of god's creation; QC.
The problem is if you use a god of random, to explain natural choices at cross roads; first replicators, then perception of reality conceptually becomes based on more than one alternative or one theory. We can make up any last random step you need and then based on prestige and resources, it can fly, even if it is not real.
Random makes it possible for more than one theory to be possible, as is the case of physics; string theory, standard and wave theories. This is a dissociated universe, which is a product of a dissociated mind. Again this is another way to pretend to be a god; using alternate realities. This is an atheist past time.
The bible only allows for one plan and one theory, based on an original schema that had been planned and approved even before construction. It follows from fundamental laws already in place that make peer review possible. This is better for the human mind and civilization, since it converges humanity toward a single truth and goal, where the results work all the time.