Maybe it's a necessity to allow their existence to continue, so they can reveal themselves 'of their own accord' like signing a declaration, declaring where they stand with God, by their own wills, as it is with humans to choose the path to walk on.
Maybe god didn't invent the universe simulator in the first place, just turned it on, and doesn't have the time or social interest among their peers in actually resolving the problems there... And if they don't, who cares?
Do you two realize how much alike you sound to me?
Wildly implausible claims and scenarios, but you both start with "maybe" because you've no evidence whatsoever. It sounds less hubristic when you qualify your nonsense with "maybe".
Tom
The difference is that for me, it's not actually a "maybe".
It's a recognition of an immediate reality as pertains an
actual observable sub-universe, and then having the wisdom to recognize that the immediate observability of my own situation answers the PoE in a way that indicates that the way religious people have been thinking about it is deeply flawed, mistaking power and the ability to create a "perfect" thing for perfection.
I'm an omnipotent and omniscient being as respects the mathematical microstate of a system created of rearranging our universe's systemic macrostate.
In less physical jargon, I can access memory and a debugger on an isolated process. With respect to that process, I can do and know literally anything that is not an absolute logical contradiction which is accessible as "it's present stepwise state."
Being a creator of such a system, if I were able to make a much larger scale version, hosting much more interesting processes of thought within it, absolutely enables me to answer the question in the way I have:
I am a god: creator of a universe, omnipotent and omniscient with respect to it.
I am a human being: a sack of meat with no special capabilities any other sack of meat in particular must lack.
I have no social leverage upon me from any human influence to solve all the suffering my creations experience, and it would be too much work to solve all their problems.
In fact depending on which universe, of my rolodex of creations and future creations we are discussing, I have already in a variety of threads pointed out why solving their problems for them would defeat the entire purpose of their existence in the first place (to see if things that exist in a universe like ours with minds like ours would discover ethics equivalent to ours, and to select such ethical yet alien beings from this environment to bring into our reality for the sake of adding new and radically different perspectives to our society and culture).
This answers the problem of evil re: evil exists, at least there in an observable sub-universe with an omnipotent, omniscient, and arguably halfway decent god because the whole point is to discover whether ethics and goodness is an emergent property of intelligent life.
