A baby wildebeest gets separated from it’s mother on the plains of Africa and a pride of lions runs it down, kills it and drags it home to their young and we think nothing of it. It’s Just another day of survival of the fittest brought to you by Animal Planet, or some other wildlife network.

A gang of thugs breaks into a home, kills a family and steals all their possessions and we call it murder, instinctively we know it’s wrong. It doesn’t matter the reason, the gang could of been on the brink of starvation, and we still call it wrong, wicked or evil.  We are reviled and disgusted by the act and want justice.

In fact, when the thugs do get caught and they go to trial, no one in the courtroom is arguing whether or not the killing of the family was wrong, or justifiable.  The whole of the argument stems around proving who was guilty of a crime.  Not even the people who committed the act themselves would even suggest their actions were merely the actions of someone trying to survive.  The victims family members would be satisfied with nothing less than justice.

Back to the lions enjoying their tasty fresh wildebeest meal.  No one in their right mind would drag these lions off to jail, try them and then throw them into prison.  They were merely doing what lions do, because they are animals and we inherently understand this.  In fact, as soon as we see the lion cubs come out and join in the feast, we typically forget all about the poor wildebeest who was the unfortunate loser that day.

Murder or evil, does not take place in the animal kingdom, only survival, and we recognize the difference.  On the other hand, murder does take place in the human environment.  While there are sometimes extenuating circumstances such as self defense or accidental homicide, we generally have a strong sense of right and wrong.

One blogger told me that there was no such thing as sin, only bad choices.  He said he didn’t believe in the concept of sin, but that we were all imperfect beings guilty of making errors in judgement.  And as a result we needed to learn from them and grow.

While this is a nice concept, I believe it is a gross misinterpretation of human nature and the world we live in.  Would anyone ever think that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Mao Zedong (the 20th Centuries greatest mass murders) were guilty of making “errors in judgement.”  If anything, I do agree that they were living out what they thought was best for the good of humanity.  The only problem was, as it turned out, it wasn’t good for nearly a 100 million of their adversaries.

These men were fierce ideologues, who cared very little for understanding others, but rather were so consumed with judging others to be less than human to the point of exterminating anyone they felt was either beneath them or who disagreed with them.

If anything, these guys were living their lives out closer to the Darwinian evolutionary model than through any religious framework.  They were practicing survival of the fittest, and yet somehow we don’t get the same feelings about them as we do watching the lions feed their young.

Survival of the fittest is beneath our human existence only because their is a God in heaven who has set an objective standard.  Otherwise, killing of one or killing of millions should literally have no effect on us.  Think about it?

If we were nothing more than animals who came about from some primordial soup, the highest benefactors of random chance and selection, then why would we care for the poor, or any of those poor souls who died in the Holocaust? It would not matter to us other than, “sorry about your luck, better you than me.”  And yet we mourn for those traumatized by horrendous slaughter, and we should.   God gave us a heart for a reason.

Why God allows evil, is another topic all together, but the fact that evil even exists at all is, in this writers opinion, undeniable proof of the existence of God and that he has allowed us free will to either choose him or reject him.

Thus, the problem with evil is that it does not fit the model of creation the world would have us believe.