Do you believe in God? Why/Why not?

[Lucca]

WolfpackN64 said:

Flilix said:

It's indeed hard to imagine what the best world would be like, but for God that shouldn't be a problem. I can definitely think of some (minor) things that he could have done better, without any possible negative consequences.

Actually, why did he even bother to create a world? Why doesn't he just let us into his paradise immediately?

Possibly, but our world has evolved on it's own for quite a bit now. Even if tornadoes weren't part of a design, the circumstances of nature created them. Not to say God couldn't have changed this, but perhaps, all things taken into account, not intervening was the best course of action.

Then he's not omniscient. Because if he is, he would have known that tornadoes would come into existence. And even then, earthquakes have always existed on Earth. If God designed Earth, he actively chose to put tectonic plates there, therefore he chose to cause earthquakes.