Harry, welcome back. You never did answer my question, so I will pose the question again:

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What equation are you using, Harry? How many universities are worth how many native cultures destroyed?
How many hospitals are worth one murdered Jewish child?

I am very serious about this. I would like to see that "X" number of hospitals outweighs exactly "Y" number of slaughtered innocent Jewish and Pagan children. If you can't answer, I would like to see a retraction of your hospital/universtity claim.
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Consistent with my own POV: the blueprint for a house does not predetermine what will occur in that house. The blueprint for creation comprehends all things that can happen and what things cannot; it does not determine what will.

what you are stating here goes 180 degrees against what is taught in the n.t. I believe in free will, but with limitations. I believe that the Creator has certain unknowable plans. Anything else can happen, so long as there is no interference with these. Yes, it follows, that the holocaust, for example, may have been a horrible, unthinkable crime, but either
1) It was a part somehow, of God's plans.
or
2) It did not interfere with God's plans.

My opinion on which it was is irrelevant. I don't think it is possible for created beings to alter the plan. There are jewish teachings that both agree, and disagre, with this opinion. Neither side would agree with the sparrow proposal in the n.t. God is all-knowing, but pays attention to one thing or another at a given time or location. I have explained "node theory" on this forum before.