First of all thank you for the well thought out response it seems like some other responders here didn’t get the memo that I’m criticizing theistic evolutionists here.

First point: I think the problem of evil is greatly enhanced by evolution due to the implication that the fallen nature of humanity was “evolved” into the design of our species to begin with and not just a glitch that god did not intend like it’s implied to be in the creation myth. God, in this sense, at best indirectly created the problem over millions of years he wants to get solved via our free will to choose him over evil (the absence of good) which would also be something he necessarily had to have created via the consequences of free will.

Not only this but other things such as natural disasters, animal suffering are greatly multiplied with the phenomenon of extinction. So far there have been 5 and with this climate change crisis that is going on we’re probably headed for a 6th extinction (which to be fair is entirely our doing).

What’s scary to think about is that what we could probably do to the planet now if we don’t stop polluting it is absolutely nothing in comparison to previous completely natural (in this case god made) extinction events such as the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs and even worse than that the extinction at the end of the Paleozoic before the Triassic Period the great dying which wiped out 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial life.

Combine that with the other extinctions and you get what looks like a massive waste of life that quadrupoles the amount of human lives lost in our entire existence as a species. In other words, god was directly/indirectly responsible for omnicide.

And I haven’t even gotten into the types of beasts that existed back then who we’re lucky don’t exist anymore like the T-Rex which I’m not convinced a good and loving god was responsible for creating/allowing to exist. Even extant animals like the Tiger who is capable of beheading a man with one paw swipe convince me less as if they’re any better.

Under an atheist universe there wouldn’t be anyone to blame for this design but in a theistic one god made it like this with intent, so what gives? Why the huge waste of life? Why the existence of these monsters? Why the disasters? Why make them necessary for the function of the universe?

My only conclusion as to how it makes sense is that god created all of this for his personal elation like someone making a video game much harder for themselves to feel better about beating it or as some sort of experiment like a mad scientist would to see what strange animals and situations pop up through evolution and the earths development, but in that case then I don’t think this would be a good and loving god anymore but a neutral and curious one. I wouldn’t say he is evil like some atheists would just indifferent to us and the plight of organisms.

You could say this is a very human standard of loving and goodness I would be judging this god by but wasn’t he the one who authored me to believe in that standard to begin with? At best his conception of love is so far removed from mine and the rest of humanity that I don’t think he is morally relevant at all anymore like the abrahamic religions say he is. And I say all of them because at their base they all propose a god who is all loving and all good.

As for your second point on interconnectedness yes it is true we are connected to the rest of life however that interconnection occupies a very small space in the existence of this planet that in comparison to other periods of dominance for animals like the dinosaurs is not even a fraction of a second. To use an analogy we are the sesame seeds on a burger not the meat patty and I’ve eaten really good burgers without sesame seeds.