What does God look like? Did God create man in His image, or did man create God in their image? There is really no way to determine which of these is the case. Religious thinkers hypothesize the former,²³ but there is absolutely no way to prove it. Stephen Jay Gould thinks the latter. "Since man created God in his own image . . . "²⁴ Actually, I am inclined to believe the latter. The following may very well have happened: God created the process of evolution, and decided to let it run its course. Therefore, whatever ended up evolving would likely think that their Creator looked like them. He or She (more likely It) may be a giant ant up in the sky, for all we can scientifically postulate. Not only do we not know what God looks like, we can never know, short of Divine revelation.

It is precisely this lack of Divine revelation that seems to be the reason for the proliferation of such a great number of world religions. God could have created us with certain knowledge of His existence, but then there would be nothing exciting or mysterious in the world. If, there was common knowledge that there was a God, there would be no reason for faith of any kind. By definition, "faith" means belief that something is true, even if without "scientific" evidence. God could get a nearly 100 percent "believe-in" rate if He would just reveal Himself. This leads one to believe that His goal must be something other than having everyone believe in Him. Then again, would it be better to have faith or certain knowledge of God?

Once geology and evolution gave us a picture of a changing universe, we (Westerners, at least) had to change our understanding of God. This is interesting. If our understanding of God is constantly changing (just like the rest of the universe) when precisely are or were we correct? Were the Greek polytheists correct? The Mayans? Taoists? Throughout the various continents, and over the centuries that make up all of human history, ideas of God have taken on many varied forms. Who exactly is right? Each religion thinks itself as being the only right one.²⁵ This is a problem for religion, which has sometimes answered that we are all worshipping the same God under different names and ideologies. This answer still does not take into account polytheism or other ancient beliefs, except that they, too, were worshipping a mysterious unknown force that guided their lives, and simply calling it many gods instead of One. Significantly, the more educated a society is scientifically, the larger the role is for religion, but also, it our society, the less formal education one has, the more likely they are to be religious. Thus, the trend exist over both space and time.