God's existence

I went to South Africa, wanting God to reaffirm his existence and I sort of expected to be overwhelmed with the astounding visual beauty of the landscape on our Safari. Instead the landscape was sparse and mostly brown with small shrublike bushes.

It was the brutality of the bush that did it. They don't call in survival of the fittest for nothing (see the battle of kruger video). When male giraffe get too old they are turned out to fend for themselves and usually become prey, when an animal gets sick or has any defect it is left behind the herd, for the most part animals are eaten alive, when leopards infringe on another's territory mothers will eat their daughters to preserve power.

It could be said that we humans react similarly and do less than protect our old and young, but when we do this we know it is wrong. As Nelson Mandela said "A Society should be judged by how it treats its weakest members." There must be something within us that is different from the animals for if all we are after is evolutionary advantage then we ought to be aborting and euthanizing a lot more of our population.

Could it be true that we are made in God's image and so our progression as a human race prefers compassion over survival.