God doesn't prevent terrible things because?

[SlayerRondo]

DeadNotSleeping said:

AstroGamer said:
Asking why God doesn't prevent terrible things is a tad stupid, I feel. I feel the world is hardly a terrible place. The terrible things that happen are so small in comparison to what could happen. For example say there were no more earthquakes, probably the tectonic plates wouldn't be moving. Why do they move? because of the shifting mantle beneath the crust. I'm not even sure what could happen if the mantle doesn't move because that's defying physics or something like the Earth stopped spinning caused that and you can imagine what that would mean. That's barely a fraction of what could happen and within the constraints of logic. There are infinite possibilities to the illogical tragedies that could occur. God also probably had to give foundation to a system of nature so we could understand the world and logic would be legitimate thing. Death also gives value to life

Good point.  A world without natural disasters would require a capricious system of physics that may simply be conceptually impossible, and the current scientific model might actually be the most stable option for supporting life.  It is rather disappointing how deliberately manipulative the poll is.

There are many tragedies that occur that are not the result of required geographic factors required to sustain as world where people can survive. Also if a god existed then not only does he fail to prevent tragedies but has designed us in a way there our food and air go down the same tube allowing for us to easily choke by accident, which by itself (which it is not) is enough for me to balk at the concept of intelligent design.

As yes it could be worse but surely given infinite power one would want to provide people with the best world where certain people based on the physioilogy or geographic location would not suffer hardships so unfairly, Just because the world does not seem terrible to you does not mean others dont have terrible lives through no fault of their own and receive no help from an absentee god.

Adnd the idea that you cant appreciate happiness without experiencing pain is simply a false assumption that people make, which applies doubly to the people who die from their pain and will never again experinece happiness again to appreciate.