Reply #1: I can see you have strongly-held views

[Don Claybrook]

...but how do you feel about an impersonal god, more in the Eastern style? This is a concept that presents many fewer problems for me than does the notion of a personal god who knows your name, what you're up to, cares about you, and so on.

Put another way, why would not this god choose to actuate the intergalactic-transport-whatever by way of having these people expire in their sleep?

Just something to throw out there.