If God gave us free will , along with all our other abilities as human beings , with perfect foreknowledge , and we use our free will and abilities to do evil , then God is as responsible as we are for the things we do . There ' s no way around that conclusion . <| sep |> EDIT You have a spoiler . Might want to put a warning in the first line or something . Been awhile since I ' ve seen the movie , and I ' ve seen all of the TV series more than once , so that could be clouding my judgement . I think the reason is partially because they thought the Stargate only went to that planet , and in usual SciFi fashion , I think we are supposed to assume that because the gate is in a desert , that the entire planet is desert . Also I think politics would have a lot to do with it . When the show starts and we find out it goes to other plants , it takes a lot to convince leadershipthe gov that we should be taking the risk to use it . Now as you obviously thought of , throughout the show I always wondered why we never heard the argument that we should at least be considering mass gathering of valuable resources . I know they had sites near the end of the series for evacuation of key personnel , but never did they bring up using it to address problems of poverty , hunger , water , or population of earth .