They always throw out "free will" when talking about the problem of evil, as if that somehow absolves God of all the needless suffering which occurs in this world.
If I were an omnipotent deity, I'd find a way to create a world in which there was no evil.
If I were an omnipotent deity, I'd find a way to create a world in which there was no evil.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.