Dawkins: Atheism is not a solution in that it doesn't remove the suffering. There's no hope of any moral compensation if you have been a victim of moral evil. The people actually in the suffering appeared to be drawn nearer to God, he says.
For the religious believer and the atheist alike, the problem of evil and suffering is troubling. If there is a God, why does he allow so much evil? And if there isn’t a God, how can we say that anything is evil?
In this Forum event from 2014 at Harvard Medical School, Oxford mathematician John Lennox addresses one of the most challenging human questions: where is God in suffering?