While I utterly disagree with that assertion, it is nonetheless useful that you have asserted it, because this illustrates something I was trying to say, which is that even if Stepeh Fry shows up in heaven and puts these rather difficult questions to God, it might still be that God will respect Stephen Fry's honesty and that God will have an answer to Stephen Fry's questions, which would presumably be an answer very much like the one you have just stated.

However, I am going to argue with you anyway. The idea that our lives here on Earth are filled with deadly peril and suffering because God in His infinite wisdom has taken steps to prevent overpopulation, is not at all reasonable. God can do anything. He doesn't have to do things the hard way. He could have just reduced human fertility, if He was so concerned about overpopulation. I will also say that even if it is true (which I do not believe) that our existence here on Earth is nothing more than a very brief prelude to our perfect lives in heaven, it is still true that there is far too much suffering here on Earth. You may imagine that without suffering here on Earth we would be less appreciative of the lack of suffering that we will later enjoy in heaven, but the severity of suffering on Earth is far too great to justify in that manner. When we see the miserable and desperate lives lived by so many people, the disease, disability, tragic early death, the tragedies which are so abundant, the earthquakes and volcanoes and tsunamis and droughts and floods, innocent children whose legs are blown off by landmines, and so on endlessly, it hardly seems as if this is what we really need to prepare us for a better appreciation of heaven. As Stephen Fry pointed out, there is a parasitic wasp that eats people's eyeballs, causing unbelievable pain as well as blindness; did God really need to create this species of wasp? Is this something that helps to make life on Earth complete? Only a viciously cruel and sadistic deity would deliberately create such a thing. To say nothing of smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, ebola, etc. This is not a well designed world for humans to live in.