Also, without suffering, there would be (almost) no drive to invent technology.
DD pretty much summed it up for you, Tabby.
God is all knowing, meaning that he knows every thought and every aspect there is to know. He knows how the world will look like at any time in the future, past and in every way of his interference.
God is almighty, meaning that he can make the world very old, or make it look like it is very old, making a world with evolution or make it look like there is evolution. He can move back and forth and he can make any place move back and forth in time and can make or change the world in every way.
Who taught you that? Your mummy?
Why would God care about all that? It let's us die on the ground on a daily base. Clearly it is busy somewhere else than tricking us in NOT BELIEVING in it.
Emperor Justinian, no one intelligent believes we're on a magic spinning ball flying through space unharmed
We are not "unharmed". Our planet experienced heavy bombardements before. But thanks to Juppiter and our atmosphere we are not anymore.
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