The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old

[Esquilax]

God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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earthquakes control population and besides: people die. has nothing to do about 'problems'.

I've heard this kind of argument from christians before, about natural disasters, predatory animals and such, and I've never understood why the christian isn't horrified by the implications: what they've essentially admitted is that, rather than just creating humans with a slightly adjusted fertility rate so as to keep the populations stable, god would rather turn the world into an engine of death, where he has to keep culling the population, in nasty and painful ways for whatever reason.

It just... how does that argument not scare the shit out of you, if you actually believe it to be true?

Come to think of it, that last part might be the problem...