Was It Designed?, page-1886

Only that we embed natural order and suffering in the natural world related to our own sense of morality, right / wrong, empathy, degrees of cruelty, etc, when nature is clearly no more than a great interconnected organism that must destroy to move forward. It deals in the bigger picture and not so much the individual.

It may be a system to ultimately produce sentient, cognisant creatures like us built to somewhat overcome the tyranny of nature itself. Or it may all be a great cosmic mishap.