Many atheists argue against belief in God by using the problem of pain.  The argument goes: If God is good, he would not want his people to be in pain.  If God is all powerful, he could prevent his people from being in pain.  His people are in pain.  Therefore, God is either not all powerful, or not good.  Seemingly this is an insurmountable argument.  Many people, including C.S. Lewis, who wrote the book "The Problem of Pain",  have argued convincingly that this argument has holes in it on many levels.  But, all of the arguments argue from a human point of view and don't really take into account God's very difficult problem.

God's very difficult problem is to keep humans, who are 100% certain to die, from thinking about death every day.  Death is an unavoidable fact of life which everyone fears yet most people go for years without thinking about.

Contrast this with the myriad of fears that keep people up at night: global warming, burglary, fear of child abduction.  Most things people fear won't happen.  Yet, we obsess on the statistically improbable and unvoid thinking of the certain.

I propose that this is only possible because of the infinitely variable way people die.  When talking to people about a loved one's death, one gets the impression that the deceased would never have died if it were not for unusual, random, completely unforseen circumstances.  Even when looking at the deceased in the coffin, we can still manage to avoid thinking about our deaths.

There are 6 billion people in the world with an average life span of 50 years.  God must kill 120 million people each year.  That is about 330,000 people per day.  If our world were not dangerous and painful then how could God accomplish this?  Perhaps he could have everyone die peacefully in their sleep or get run over by a bus?  Maybe, we would all fall asleep in the snow?  But imagine how we would all feel about sleep, or taking the bus or snow.  They would all be harbingers of death.  If a pattern ever started to become apparent, people would be obsessed with death.  Just see what has happened with power lines and cancer.  Although no scientific link has been established between power lines and cancer, there were law suits and prime-time specials.  Like wise, cell phones and brain cancer.  If any of us began to understand how our deaths would be caused; to what lengths would we go to avoid the circumstances. What if we knew we would drown?  Would we bathe, do the dishes or the laundry?

The amazing randomness and the infinite variety of death must necessitate a dangerous and painful world.  Ironically, it is the very unpredictable and dangerous nature of the world we live in which allows us to stop thinking about our deaths long enough to plan, love and laugh.  Our pain and our death's in all their variety are a necessity if we are to live productive and hopeful lives.

God's existence is not proved by the dangerous and painful world we live in, but it is certainly not disproved.