“AS far as I see it, the answer is to be found in human free-will. I do not think that the word “pitiful” is a fair description of your world, though such a blackness covers many parts of it. The earth has its part to play in a universe of ordered creation. The earth is one of the steps in the ladder of life. It is one of the spheres of being through which every individual has to pass as part of the equipment, the training for the spirit. If the earth were not necessary, then the earth would not exist. The fact that it does exsist is evidence of the part it plays in the divine, evolutionary scheme.” ~ The Silver Birch Book Of Questions & Answers, P. 139