“I have checked my memory with Doris, who also knew Haldane well, and what he actually said was: “God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.” J.B.S.H. himself had an inordinate fondness for the statement: he repeated it frequently. More often than not it had the addition: “God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.” …Haldane was making a theological point: God is most likely to take trouble over reproducing his own image, and his 400,000 attempts at the perfect beetle contrast with his slipshod creation of man. When we meet the Almighty face to face he will resemble a beetle (or a star) and not Dr. Carey [the Archbishop of Canterbury].”
(Kenneth Kermack discussing one of the most famous quotes of his friend, the geneticist and evolutionary biologist: J. B. S. Haldane, as requoted by Stephen Jay Gould in his article: ‘A Special Fondness for Beetles’ in the January 1993 issue of Natural History (Issue 1, Volume 2), again reprinted on p. 377 of his book ‘Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History’)
Actually, the above line of reasoning only works if we assume God is a narcissist. Otherwise, for all we know, he (or she, it, or they) may well look like Dr. Carey the (then) Archbishop of Canterbury. J. B. S. Haldane himself was a bit of a dandy.