that's a good possibility tha by 'in His image' the Bible means something other than physical appearance.
Is that even in doubt? I'm not exactly up on the latest thought in Biblical exegesis, but even when I was a pup in Catholic school, it was obvious that "in His image" didn't mean that God was about 6' and possessed of a navel and genitalia.
I don't understand how a person of any intelligence could read that and come to the conclusion that the Genesis writer meant that God is the exact shape and form of a person. I mean, on one hand you have a brilliantly poetic way of describing how the human faculty for introspection and insight is like Gods, and on the other, you have a really stupid insistance that God has a body like a person, down to what's under the fig leaf.
I enjoy agreeing with you, partly because I know my superiors would be pissed off like a redneck in a distance whizzing contest if they knew I was on good terms with somebody like you even just on an internet forum.
That's a hardly Christlike position for them to take, don't you think? If they get all up in your face, remind them that Jesus spent more time with prostitutes and tax collectors than he did with the righteous. Christ ministered by getting to know people, by getting into their lives and seeing from their perspective. Surely there can't be anything wrong with following suit?