Darwinian God or irresponsible father?

God, as I said before, if it really exists, could pretty well be classified, on scientific terms, as a mayor motherfucker and a bastard. How else could you explain the wanton destruction and devastation caused by natural disasters or the damage inflicted on Earth life by mankind? As a father, mother or whatever, God is lousy: He/she/it is letting the kids play with matches and pour gasoline all over the floor, while he/she/it is trying to watch "Cristina" or "Maury" on TV.

Or maybe the big guy/gal/thing is more interested in the evolutionary process of a species than in just preserving it because it's something with a sentimental value. While not intervening as an active force, God weeds the most unviable elements by just letting them be consumed by their own mistakes and their incapacity to deal with potentially obliterating changes in the envinroment. The survivors of nuclear war, ecology disasters, or a gamma ray burst from another galaxy would be very much suited for whatever may come afterwards. In the end, God's favourite children could turn out to be a bunch of roaches.

As a parent, the whole idea seems awful to even consider. But, who's to say we are in such privileged position in the order of creation that we are of a special value to a deity whose existence can as easily be proven and disproven? Now, if we take an atheistic route, we have to consider life on Earth as an accident, something that just happened by a set of circunstances manifested at the same time. And accidents can happen again and again, at least until something critical breaks and the whole machine falls apart. Without an engineer to fix it, the machine is bound to decay.

In any case, as with most situations, the only peoples (or species) worth saving may be those who try to save themselves. Like in Aesop fables, ask divinity for help only if you plan on do something yourself. But if you suceed by your own effort, then the whole plea to the gods ends up being pointless. Maybe there's no God, or God is just inexcrutable.