This tweet came from The Non-Alchemist and is worth dwelling on:

In YouTube form, if you cant see it:

The two-horned dilemma is spot on. Either:

Really, think of all of that pain and suffering over all those millions of years whereby animals and humans have endured pain and died merely because Adam and Eve who were knowingly created that way by God ate an apple (enter stage right apologists who claim the crime was infinite in scope and deserves appropriate punishment, but this does not really suffice).

Being punished for the sins of another is a bitter pill to swallow, especially if you are a sentient creature of another species with more limited consciousness but that can still feel pain.

There is no making sense of this scenario, there really isnt. I have set both horns out previously, which are worth looking into:

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Storks, Evolution and the Problem of Evil | Jonathan MS Pearce - Patheos