Not at the subatomic level.. and the subatomic level may well have some significant impact on (or even be responsible for) consciousness.
"consciousness is probably an illusion"
This is an extremely controversial claim which is far from settled. We can't even settle on a definition of consciousness.
"The problem of evil; is logically caused by the existence of life that strives and competes within an environment of finite resources. Give us a universe where all the beings are powered by an infinite source of energy so they don't need to chase, catch, kill and eat each other."
Again, this explanation doesn't even attempt to account for sources of suffering that have nothing to do with human agency, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and disease.
But even were we to focus only on humans it doesn't explain why some people actually enjoy making others suffer or hate one anohter. No amount of resources would be sufficient to fix this.
Finally, even were this a perfectly deterministic universe with no free will (which is contrary to the core beliefs of many of the major religions) in which there is suffering, then there's still the question of why a perfectly good, all-powerful, and all-knowing god made it that way.
Why is there suffering in this universe? Why is this universe imperfect?
The possibility that another universe could be better actually argues against god being omnipotent, perfectly benevolent, or omniscient.
The standard answer from theists is that this is "the best of all possible worlds" -- a position that Voltaire satirized in Candide.
If you actually think the universe is deterministic, then cross the street without looking both ways. If you were "meant" to get hit by a car, looking won't matter anyway; if you are not meant to, you'll be safe. Or perhaps play golf during a thunderstorm?
> Give us a universe where all the beings are powered by an infinite source of energy so they don't need to chase, catch, kill and eat each other.
"Man does not live by bread alone." There are needs besides beyond mere sustenance that people have:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Your idea doesn't solve problems like jealousy and envy and a whole host of other problems people have between each other. In a performance of Swan Lake only one person can play Odette, the Swan Princess: you don't think that's not going to cause issues of jealousy?
I agree that in a less competitive universe a being could still behave in a way that others find impolite; however you are just describing competition for non physical things; it is still competition; it could still be eliminated by God.
In this universe our daily existence depends on the physical suffering of other beings.
> Problem solved; would have expected God could figure this out.
Why not go further? A universe that's entirely static populated by entities frozen in some joyous state has no evil. Hell, a universe that doesn't exist doesn't have evil either.
It's often pretty easy to optimize for one quality.
I mean, an obvious "excuse" is that he's not optimizing for the one single quality you chose (absolutely minimized suffering).
God doesn't have to choose any quality over any other.
An omnipotent god could make a universe perfect in every way... but the universe is not perfect in every way. Why not?
The obvious issue with a statement like that is that a god would have a very different perspective than yours, and it assumes that you could actually define perfect or know it when you see it.
The problem of evil; is logically caused by the existence of life that strives and competes within an environment of finite resources.
Give us a universe where all the beings are powered by an infinite source of energy so they don't need to chase, catch, kill and eat each other.
Problem solved; would have expected God could figure this out.