Genesis 1:26, “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.” The Hebrew word translated to rule over and in some Bibles the word dominion is used, actually means to be the head of. Mankind being made in the image of our Creator is designed to manage the earth and the animals in a way that is consistent with the way we should allow our Creator to manage us.