>>24702527
Both in its logical and evidential forms, the argument doesn't rely on the problem of personal suffering. In fact one of the most common examples for the problem of evil, in philosophy of religion, is a fawn dying alone in a forest from a natural fire. Either the very existence of evil (logical) or its overwhelming enormity (evidential) seem to be contradictory to gods supposed perfectly good nature and his omnipotence. I could give you a formal argument for the problem of evil, but then again you can just google it yourself.
Instead, consider the fact that life on Earth has existed for 3.8 billion years. Although only the last half a billion years (a conservative estimate) has life become complex enough to experience pain. And since then, there have been 5 major mass extinctions and countless minor ones. The end-Permian mass extinction may have seen only 10% of living beings survive on Earth. And while extinctions are events in Earths history, horrific pain and suffering are a daily constant for billions of living beings on Earth. Hundreds of millions of years that have seen quadrillions?, quintillions?, septillions? ... of innocent living beings get tortured, burned alive, eaten alive, dismembered (also sometimes alive), starved and countless other ways that nature, and not humans, has inflicted pain and suffering. You might have heard that since the dawn of time there have been approximately 100 billion humans born. But since childhood mortality rate was up until recently around 50%, around half of all humans, almost 50 billion, have lived a short and pointless life, just to die in agony either as infants or as a small child from viruses, bacteria, cancers ... And humans are not an unusual exception. Childhood mortality is for similar reasons equally high in the animal kingdom.
I'm not saying that you can't come up with a justification for why god had to create Earth in such a way that it would have to be a giant cosmic Auschwitz, but I'm simply not convinced by any of it. None of it makes sense. If there is anyone running this thing, then he must be a deranged psychopathic monster.
