Like so many philosophical/ spiritual questions, this one has a false premise built into it. Let’s reframe your important question. I’ll agree that God created nature, the Earth, sun, moon and the galaxies. But He made it “good”, not perfect. He delegated governing authority to mankind, with a mandate to add tremendous value to the Creation, with one clear stipulation: man was never to partake of a particular tree which would activate his power to choose.
As long as man took strategic direction from his Creator, all would be well. Once his willpower was activated, all hell broke loose. Man believed he had the reasoning ability and clarity of moral adjudication that only the Lord retained. Man now evaluated right and wrong through the limits of experience and mental/emotional faculties. We call it morality today. But…we were designed and intended to evaluate good and evil through spiritual filters, not through human reasoning. Political battles today are a prime example of two parties advocating radically different positions because of deeply held moral beliefs.
Eventually, man perverted the Creation to the point where he did evil continuously. (You think stuff is bad today? It was remarkably worse before the Flood.) Nearly the entire human race was wiped out in an orchestrated, worldwide flood. Geologic evidence of this catastrophic event is still witnessed today. Mankind 2.0 began about 4,000 years ago.
Nature is not responsible for any evil that you observe, my friend. Man is responsible. Yes, God created all of it, but Nature was perverted by man, not the Lord. Thankfully there is an incredible redemption strategy available to us. I’ll leave that for another discussion.
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