Why did God create Evil?

[GodsRevolt]

If Yahweh, or any god, was so in tune with the natural order as to be compared to oil in a machine, there would be evidence of him. The world spins fine without any concrete evidence of supernatural forces. Otherwise we wouldn't be debating the existence of Yahweh thousands of years after people start writing about him.

I am not a big fan of extending metaphors out too much because I think any metaphor you use has inherent limitations in ANY situation, but I might say this: The perfect oil would leave no evidence other than a smoothly operating machine.

Aside from that, thought, isn't it an odd thing to do when you put unfounded expectations on something and then get riled up about that thing not living up to your expectations? Assuming there is a God, which I do, there is no reason to believe that He needs to make Himself known at all past the obligatory, "I Am". Is there?

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Anyhoo, doesn't get around the "creation problem." If the choices are a/b/c, then d ain't even on the table. We cannot pick a fruit that isn't there, nor a paradigm uncreated.

I must have missed it. What creation problem? That God created evil?

God created beings with the freedom to choose. That means there is the opportunity to turn towards God (good) or to turn away from God (evil).

Because that's what good and evil are, aren't they? Not measurable results of an experiment or what most people agree on. They are individual choices.