Peter and me/you:  I'm an agnostic....haven't the faintest idea if a God, god, or gods exist.  I look at the beauty of the earth and think "um, maybe so"....then I look at the horrors we inflict on each other and think "um, not a chance."  The "standard" answer I get from religious folks which discussing this question is "God works in mysterious ways."  i.e. they haven't the foggiest idea of that "why" for all the horrors and still wish to relieve any cognitive dissonance from thinking about it.  

I choose to file it under "things I don't know and know I don't know" and, instead, spend my time trying to be decent to other folks and the earth around me.  That, of course, doesn't guarantee I'll be successful, but I try.  Regards, Gary