Do you have an answer to this statement made by an atheist

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Delphinium said:
An atheist scientist made this statement. Could you give an answer to this atheist as though you are talking to him (not a fellow christian) being persuasive in your belief and not argumentative...
Here is the statement:
"Every description I've heard holds God to be all powerful and all good. And then I look around and I see a tsunami that killed a quarter million people in Indonesia. An earthquake that killed a quarter million people in Haiti. And I see earthquakes and tornadoes and disease, childhood Leukemia. And I see all of this and I say I do not see evidence of both of those being true simultaneously. If there is a God, the God is either not all powerful, or not all good. It can't be both."
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first of all, God is all good, means that God is love as well
love requires free will, or it's not love at all
the natural disasters come from the negative effects of sin, which originated from the human abuse of free will
God who is all good, allows free will, no matter how powerful God may be, and God wants to rescue you from this sin-tainted world, and provide salvation through Jesus, so you can one day enter heaven where there's no earthquakes, tsunamis, so sickness, diseases and death in heaven
 
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