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God created a near-endless variety of creatures to inhabit the land, sea, and air and gave them remarkable abilities. But only man was created in the image and likeness of God. Adam and Eve were the climax of the 6-day creation week and were put over all the other creatures as a kind of "vice regent" under God. This image of God in man included basic faculties of the sould, as intellect, emotion, and will; but its chief glory was holiness, which was lost when man fell into sin.