Just one last thing.
Rationality opened my mind to the growth of a tumor, the dissolving of human flesh by tiny bacteria that are stronger than any chemical designed to kill them, the birth of a defective baby who will never know a good day in his life and will be a burden on himself and others, the quadriplegic who was healthy until the moment his car was hit by another one because the second driver was distracted for a moment.
This is not perfection. This is a random world, with no reward and no punishment, but one which eventually human beings or our evolved successors will understand and conquer. Khomeini lived to be 86. Rudolf Hess lived to be 93. How many times do we see appeals when a “frum” head of household passes away in his 30’s or 40’s of a disease he had no control over? This is no test from any deity. It is a test that we’ll overcome when DNA mapping lets us know once and for all what is in store for us and what we can change to live longer and better (and considering how shidduchim work, I know that there will be a Dor Yeshorim that will make sure those with defective DNA don’t pass it on to the next generation, which will mean an even bigger shidduch crisis and this time for a good reason).
No Torah sage discovered the polio vaccine. Two atheist scientists did because that was what they set out to do.