The argument against "evil", theists please come to the defense.

[fr0d0]

I think I've already said, but I'll say it another way. Suffering isn't inherently evil. To me, evolution is the magical process whereby life exists. Suffering of sentient life forms is integral to that. You, in your limited egotistical world view might find that distasteful, and I understand how, at the micro level we struggle to justify it. The same criteria would apply to plate tectonics / seismic activity / natural disasters. Scientists not so recently proclaimed the necessity of these phenomena to life on earth.

This reality works. God fits with it. Utopian dreams of an un suffering universe don't pan out practically.