You guys are missing the obivous theist way to avoid all of these problems, which is god's omnisicience. Therefore anything that seems to be detrimental to us, i.e. god's lack of parenting skills, can simply be explained away as god having a good reason for it, because god knows things that we don't know.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
