March of the Penguins vs. The Grizzly Man

Recently I have been thinking about the uniqueness of man and specifically as created in God's image. Modern thinking is that man is just an animal. Two movies I recently saw reaffirm to me that this modern thinking is false. The two movies were March of the Penguins and Grizzly Man. The main subject in the first are obviously penguins. The second movie focused primarily on a man and how he lived with and ultimately killed by a bear. When a penguin is attacked by a predator the other animals not being attacked scatter. This is a natural instinct for self preservation. In contrast when the grizzly man was being attacked and eaten by a bear his companion attempted to help him by hitting the bear with a frying pan. Even as he was being eaten he begged his companion to flee for her own life. She did not and was also killed and eaten by the bear. I believe whether you want to admit it or not this innate response of mankind to help the helpless is a support that there is something different in man. The story of man's creation in the first couple chapters in the Bible in Genesis stated clearly that man is different from the other animals because he has the "imago dei". This is the theological Latin term meaning the image of God. If you accept the Biblical account then man was created in God's image that is what separates man from the rest of animalkind. In this so called modern age it is high time that man start reflecting the image of God and stop acting more like an animal. For more on the imago dei see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago_Dei