Aquinas' Objections to the Existence of God

In this video, we discuss the two objections St. Thomas Aquinas provides to his arguments for the existence of God.

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I wish theologians focused more on the problem of non-human animal suffering rather than the problem of human evil, which can easily be explained by the Free Will Defense and High Order Goods response. The problem becomes exponentially more difficult when you have to account for, say an animal dying a torturous death out in the wild, as most people do not consider non human animals to be moral agents (so free will response won’t work) and a wild animal will not have the capacity “personal growth” of the soul in this example either. The harder problem then becomes, “how does God permit the exact amount of suffering, no more no less?” Isn’t it reasonable to think that an all good and loving God could have let that deer die just a slightly quicker death to save it from some suffering? Or, doesn’t it seem more likely that the amount suffering is just a coincidence of the randomness of the universe