It's generally estimated that 90%-95% of all species to have existed are extinct. A large portion of this extinction occurred before humans even existed.
Now, I don't know about your particular nature with god and godettes and the ilk, but whats up nature being particularly brutal, and if your god created nature or is nature, then I'd like to know his/her/its fascination with killing things off.
Thanks.
One of the most common options I've seen is just to deny that this happened. It's a really inconvenient question against the claim that humans are responsible for original sin and all lack of perfection on the planet. The earth was 6,000 years old and humans were there early, in other words.
The second is just to say that god is cool with that sort of thing. The god of the Abrahamic religions, for example, intentionally wiped out people with a flood. Why not do it a few dozen times every several millions of years when it's not pleased with how things are developing, if that's the moral character that people believe it has? If god is proposed as having basically an aggressive and demanding personality, as it so often is, then it fits.
Personally, without a god concept, the question isn't relevant to me.
And before that, I came from a sort of liberal new age religious background, and I didn't hear people really discuss that sort of thing. They believed that the universe was built around love and personal growth and stuff. But how much of that existed for 99.9%+ of the history of life on earth, of those hundreds of millions of years, perhaps billions? A world with sentience but without sapience lacks much of what many religions say life is about, what the universe is about, and as far as the fossil record is concerned, it looks like highly developed sapience probably wasn't around, just life and death.
Like... its impossible to make butter from milk without a process in between,
Is it, for a god?
Similarly.. it was impossible to make humans without a process in between.
So in your worldview, Brahman, or the name you refer to as the ultimate, has limitations? There are things that are impossible for it?
Interesting.