Ants Don't Sin

Not too long ago I was sitting watching a string of ants moving along the bottom of a wall. I watched them for a while. It is wierd that they all seemed to have some idea of purpose. There they were scurrying with what seemed to be great intensity. I dropped a couple of small potato chips near the line to see what would happen. A couple of ants detoured and started to carve up the chips and then hoist it on their little shoulders ( actually I am not sure if ants even have shoulders) and haul it to the ant metropolis that I assumed existed somewhere. After just a few minutes other ants joined them and the potato chip mother lode became big news to the ants. They all joined in and began working together to take it all home. I remember having a talk with a very bright man who said that man was not any different than the animal kingdom. He did not believe in morals but only in instincts. His point was that we were like ants more or less (only with easily identifiable shoulders). But as I watched the ants what I didn't see in all the time I was watching was an ant who grabbed a piece of chip and headed off to hoard it on his own. I didn't see any ants pull out little ant guns and wave off the other ants so they wouldn't have to share. I remember reading in C.S.Lewis that man is the only really wild animal. We are the only ones in rebellion and not doing what God created us to do. So, while watching the ants I bacame more convinced of the sinfulness of man. It did strike me that I probably did them no favors by dropping potato chips. Since ants only live a couple of days I am pretty sure some mom ant was going to say to her son, "you've been eating junk food your whole life". And she would be right.