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Okay, what is nature?
Nature is Malaria. It is a disease which led to the existance and the need for sickle cell anemia.
Maleria, via a mutation migrated to humans, sickle cells evolved in order to prevent people getting malaria, a valuable trait in malaria areas. This is why the condition is more common in areas which, surprise suprise, have malaria.
It is not the mark of a benevolent God that this came into being, it is the mark of evolution - which doesn't require intent guiding it, it just requires things to adapt to their surroundings.
To see God in nature, is to forget that a lot of nature includes parasites which blind children, diseases which cause unimaginable agony, madness, deformity etc... It looks very pretty, and hey I like nature, but it isn't a symptom of some wonderous all knowing deity running the universe.
