A divine plan to kill children

News item from yesterday's Star Tribune:

"A 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shauna Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived . . . Charles Jason Darnell, the snake's owner and the boyfriend of Shauna's mother, discovered the snake missing from its aquarium and went to the girl's room, where he found it on the girl and bite marks on her head . . . Darnell, 32, stabbed the snake until he was able to pry the child away."

A young, innocent 2-year-old is killed by a 12-foot snake. It sounds absolutely dreadful. Now, let's consider this sad story from the perspective of those who believe that God basically orchestrates everything and/or knows everything and/or controls everything. If you are to make such a claim, then you are required to believe that:

1. God helped a 12-foot python out of its cage.
2. God allowed the python to enter a toddler's room and strangle her.
3. God could have stopped all this but chose not to.

In cases such as this one, I don't know how any reasonable person would conclude that God is micromanaging our lives. At the VERY least, can we all agree that something like this, especially if it's divinely ordained by an omniscient and omnipotent higher power, is just plain cruel? And at the VERY least, can we all agree that too many cruel things happen each and every day to suggest that it's all part of a "plan"? What kind of plan involves killing innocent children? Or for that matter, letting Hitler live as long as he did? (There's a great plan: become an enabler for mass genocide! God just stood by while 6 million human beings were treated like garbage--thanks for all the help, my man!)

If all of this is a "design," it's not a very "intelligent design."