In fact, we don't have any but ourselves: we've met no creature as sapient as ourselves; perhaps, only yet. This would be the only reason it's said in the Bible that God created humans in his own image: we have no other image to turn to.In our current state, we've no point of reference for any archetypal Godly figure other than text (today with bibles) or animism (older religions)
Exactly my point. For so many reasons, I'm inclined to reverse the phrase to humans created God in their own image, instead. There are so many allusions to such with the Creation of Adam, Greco-Roman Pantheon, and Hindu deities. The only model for a God figure we have here are ourselves. As a side note, it makes for interesting thoughts when one speaks of "playing God" when we're the ones that made Him.
Stephen Fry, when asked about religion, would generally reply that he doesn't believe in God or gods, but he finds certain fondness of the Greek gods - or, "the capricious gods", as he refers to them. He sees their humanity as a good expression of the human nature that they truly possess through their creators. It's a powerful idea, too: that we create gods.