@prothero,
In the beginning there was no distinction between good and evil. Man and Woman were yet to born. God's creation did not exist in the realm of valoration, ideals, truth or ethics.
This proto-type was a mere reflection of god, a simulacra, as real as the real, representation and represented alike. And like this, Homo-Original had an origin, an original. God created a type in its likeness, a function, a bland performative truth. The Human came after disobedience. No longer a mere operative capability, but now a promise, a destiny.
Perhaps today we can glimpse the symptoms of that Genesis-world in our day to day lives. The nowaday representing itself as mere operative capability. No longer a destiny, but a function, a bland performative truth.
In this religiousness of the modern, men and women have begun to efface themselves, stepping back to the world of genesis. The original that was once human - the defiance of god (let alone the bosses or teachers!), the ideals and values (so much more than jobbing sloth and bits of plastic that light up and bleep, and a two week holiday in the sun) - have detached themsevles from men and women, leaving intact only the performative baboon, the icon of the absolute.