A clarification. Man is a animal (particularly a mamma) biologically but distinct from animals ontologically. That does not conflict with a literalist seven day view of creation. Like mammals, humans are warm-blooded, grow hair, and produce live young which are usually fed by milk from their mothers when born. Admitting humans are animals in this sense no more undermines the unique nature of man being made in the image of God than does admitting that man is composed physically of matter. Only heretics such as Gnostics deny that the material component of man is as essential as the spiritual at least in the world in which he now finds himself.