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Okay. Okay.

Now prove that every single one of those people and animals that died in the flood deserved it.

The animals? At least the animals. Seriously.

Except that in this case, he DID cause it to happen, because he's all powerful and created the universe, remember? He's not one or the other, he's both omniscient AND omnipotent, all-knowing and all-powerful. By creating the universe the way he did, he already set in motion the way things are going to turn out until the end of time.

Basically, if you're such a powerful being to create the entire UNIVERSE, nothing is going to be out of your control. This isn't a case of knowing your sister is going to take your brush, it's arranging the circumstances for your sister to get up, want your brush, guide her towards the brush, fix her psychology so that she's not inhibited to take the brush, and then have her take the brush. We're talking about two vastly different scales here.

The point is that if you believe in such a powerful deity, you can't believe in free will, it doesn't exist. He's arranged for everything, and it all falls under his big master plan. From the fall of Satan, Adam, Jesus, and Man, it was all meant for it to happen. Therefore, it becomes ludicrous that he would punish you for something he both a) not just knew, but PLANNED on happening and b) caused to happen, however indirectly (although truth be told, he would have to have a direct cause in just about everything anyway). In anyway you look at it, free will doesn't make sense.

Of couse he doesn't want mindless drones worshipping him. We can tell because we're not mindless drones, and some people don't worship him. What we can tell he does want is what we have, because for a being that powerful, what we see has to be what he wants, otherwise it wouldn't be here. The closest analogy I can think of is like writing a story. For the finished product, the only things that are there are there because YOU WANTED THEM THERE. Nothing is there that you did write down, that you didn't want to be there. Since we're assuming that he's the author of the entire cosmos, anything that's here (physically, temporaly, and otherwise) must be here because he wants it here.

It's not murder. G-d has every right to kill something rebelling against His laws and wishes. He's the Creator. He could have, and should have killed everything and started over from there, but He chose not to.
Crowded? Hardly. The ark was huge. Calculations from the Bible put it larger than a football field and several stories tall. I recall reading a science book that said exactly how much space there was, and it placed more than enough room in there for the animals and the food required to sustain them.

That's a hard one.

I think that untill they reach the point where they think and feel ... it's okay.

Scientifically, we have no proof that they happened, and we've got plenty of proof that it didn't happen. But, to stay on topic, we can discuss this in the "Why do you believe what you believe thread."

I don't see how the scenario is any different. We can only assume that the deity is perfect, much like we can only assume that our parents have our best intentions in mind. Most of the time they do, but go about things in the wrong way, and some of the times they don't, and we have bad things happen. "Perfect" is a subjective term, so there's not really a viable way to say what is or isn't. That said, we still have to consider the thoughts and feelings of those who have been created.

Example: There's tons of people in the world who need organ transplants, limb replacements, blood transfusions, etc. Let's say we've got a completely safe and cost-effective way to create people from scratch so that way we can harvest what we need from them, then recycle what's leftover for further use. A little on the macabre side, but millions of lives are being saved and we don't have to kill or harvest anything from anyone else. It's all for the greater good in most opinions. But do we still have that right? What about the rights of those that we create? Do they even HAVE rights, being created from scratch for the sole purpose of yielding said organs?

Now let's say that a group of them escapes or rebels, and reject us as their creators. They are going directly against the "perfect" plan we had orginally envisioned for them, do we have the right to kill or punish them? Further, do we set them all free, let them have their free will, and kill any of them that don't want to follow our plan? In this way we get only the ones that want to serve us, and any of the others (going against what we had planned for them) get the axe. I suppose it'd be much easier if we didn't tell them that their ultimate fate would be to get chopped up and used for organ harvest, and we'll just tell them that they're going to some paradise, some exotic Island, if you will (sound familiar? I have yet to see it, but I heard it wasn't that great). Would any of that make it more justified?

If we're assuming there's still God ruling the universe while you're doing this, I would say no, it's wrong.

If we're assuming there's not God, then I don't know...I can see the example, but it doesn't exactly apply to God's scenario. I might say yes. I'll have to think about it.

((Um...what Island?))