ThePainefulTruth
Romantic-Cynic
This implies that an obvious choice is equivalent to no choice at all.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here with the phrase "obvious choice". Assuming you mean "obvious moral choice", then yeah, I think it's not only (usually) obvious, it's inherent as a result of our full self-awareness. Take murder for purely self-serving reasons. How is that not a moral choice when people choose to commit it all the time, or choose not to? You choose to do evil, or not. How is that not a choice?
It also undercuts its own premises, since if we've established that even the claim of God's mere existence can't be justified rationally, then any statements about God's values and objectives are necessarily unjustified.
I don't claim that God exists, I state emphatically that there is no evidence either way. But from there, it's entirely reasonable to speculate "what if". IF God exists and created the universe that spawns self-aware creatures, the first question the springs to mind is, why?
Beyond that, since there's (so far) a complete absence of evidence for or against God, we could imagine that such perfection would be by design since if there wasn't a designer, we would expect some evidence against God's existence to naturally creep in, there being no designer to hide It's own nonexistence. Of course the problem with using that as evidence against God is, we can't use a lack of evidence as evidence. Clever.
After all, any reasonable basis you might have for concluding that there exists a God who cares about free will would also serve as a reasonable basis for concluding that God exists, period, but you've just argued against any reasonable basis to conclude that God exists.
You keep substituting the language of certainty for an agnostic approach. We have no evidence to conclude "that there exists a God". We can only speculate "if". And even if its possible that God created the universe as a stage on which we could exercise our free will, that doesn't preclude the possibility that free will exists if atheism is correct--it just wouldn't have the purpose a test implies.
The elephant in the room is not the question of the existence of God, it's how did the universe come to be. That's evidence for something.