Yes but to be created as an image, which should also include mastering of the mind, then to fall from that only to find that the only destiny is to be back where you started, seems like, well, I dunno, if I had the power to create would I do that? May never know since I do not have that power.
The most plausible explanation to anthropogenesis I foudn is in Yogananda's writings.
God really created us in his image, demigods, nearly perfect spiritual beings with powers we cannot imagine. But he chose to give free will to us and to all the created intelligencies. that's why he let Lucipher, his rebel lietenant, alone. And when God decided that he could not intervene against his creatures' free will, he had to accept an imperfect cosmos and the presence of a force (Maya, Satan, Evil) which is doing its best to keep us from evolving spiritually.
