The Watchmaker: my fav argument

[possibletarian]

We create things for a purpose, even if that purpose is just for fun.  What use are destructive things like  tsunamis, earthquakes  and volcanos to a deity that could have easily made a world without them, especially one created just for us.

Guns, electric chairs, and atomic bombs.

You are making my point for me, all those are designed for a purpose to do a specific task, and we can follow the evolution throughout human history of how we got to that point, stick & Stone to arrows, to bolts, to guns, and we can follow the discoveries that allowed their development, they have always had a purpose and were designed that way.

God presumably had us in mind when it made the earth, if we are to be allowed to describe it as a can do anything, loving, being, we can expect its designs follow through on that, instead what we see is a planet that will only be suitable to us for a tiny fraction of it's life, much of it barely a suitable habitat in a solar system that will itself destroy us.  We see destructive events that wipe life out, diseases that kill whole swathes of humanity (and are only stemmed by human intelligence) natural disaster that wipes out thousands in a  single event.

If its purpose was to design an earth that seems not ideal for purpose and un-designed, then kudos to it, it did a great job, but then how can we tell the difference ?

If you had purchased the earth off the shelf in a god shop, advertised as an ideally designed place for humans to live in, you would return it as faulty