Free will has zip-all to do with a failure to prevent Evil.
Are you saying that the "god" in question is incapable of building a Universe without evil in it?
I dunno if he is saying that, but....I am. Or at least, if a Creator God leaves anything AT ALL to do its "own thing," in which it is at all possible to take a path different from that which is programmed (and baby sat) into it, then....no.
"Evil,' when it is boiled down, is simply the 'less optimal choice." Any time there is a possibility of making a choice, then evil exists. Suppose your kid has a choice between getting a red balloon or a green one, and he chooses the green one. Why? Perhaps all his reasons are good ones, or at least neutral ones; it looks better with her dress, or she knows her friend wants the red one and your kid wants to make her friend happy. Very good; good is chosen. However, that means choosing the red balloon is 'evil,' being the lesser choice. Not very evil, certainly, and in another circumstance or time, the red balloon would be the better choice. However, whenever there IS a choice, one option will be more optimal than the other, which makes the other...'evil.'
The only way to avoid it is to make sure there is no choice available for anybody or anything.
Which means that the Creator God Who invented such a world put evil into it deliberately and with malice aforethought. Now I wonder: which version of God would be, er....more evil?
If so-- why such an inept an incapable deity?
So much for "all good" or even "all powerful"-- clearly it is not all good, because it included evil, and it is far from all powerful because it was unable to prevent evil.
Well, your version of 'all good' might not be an accurate representation. After all, when I was six my parents made me get polio shots (and very shortly thereafter, the stuff on the sugar cubes). From my perspective, I thought they were evil personified. Certainly they weren't "all good,' because they allowed me to GET HURT. More than allowed, they deliberately made me stand in line for an hour so that someone in a white coat could jab me....and they made me do it THREE TIMES.
No way could you have convinced me that they were 'good' to do this.
I was extremely envious of my cousin, whose parents didn't make HER stand in line; they listened to her tantrums and put it off.
Do I need to tell you the ending of this little story? You know, the obvious one about how she got polio and I didn't? We were inseparable. If she was exposed to polio, so was I...but my parents, those evil, incompetent people, saw to it that I didn't get polio.
but you couldn't tell me at six that this was so, even after my cousin got sick and I didn't.
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As for point 2? That makes this god out to be ... dimwitted or stupid... an even bigger "oops"...
Actually, it only makes you...and others who have this same view...about six, relatively, if it doesn't make us all amoebas as compared to Einstein. It's not that I'm defending my view of God, mind you. It's just that if there IS a Creator God, He created the whole, y'know, UNIVERSE? One can pretty much figure that Someone (or Something) that did that knows...and understands...a bit more than we do. As in, on an entirely different level of comprehension, as well as a perspective of time and events that makes us look like mayflies arguing the motives of the fish that will eat them that night.
it also makes us look like hubris personified. I mean, really? ONE planet among billions, in one galaxy among billions..and is this the only universe?
And you are expecting God to adhere to YOUR opinion of how He should run things and still be 'all good?"
As to being 'all powerful,'...well, a being who can't choose NOT to do something isn't exactly all powerful, is he? In fact, a being who MUST do everything you think CAN be done isn't powerful at all.