"The Lord works in mysterious ways"

[ABlackViolet]

...is likely all that theists have to say to this fact. 

[Karlos2006]

"the lord works in mysterious ways" I grew up going to a Christian school and i always hated this expression.  I always thought "the lord works in scientific ways."  For me Science and Religion co-exists because Science is just the details to everything.  As for the David Attenborough quote, it's an echo of the Epicurean Paradox.  Being a Pagan, my thoughts are that nature is our God  but not everything about nature is 'nice'  But nature has a power over us and we have some power over it, so we need to try and work with it.

 

Carl Sagan said it best with - "God isn't an old man sitting in the cloud ready to award us or punish us at a whim.  God is the Universe..." (Paraphrase)