“Then what would you call a god who creates intelligent beings but allows them free will to perform evil on each other? Seems that’s an even greater abdication of responsibility.”
The alternative to free will is slavery to God. How is that am improvement?
I didn’t say it was. I like free will. I think it indicates God wants friends, not slaves.
My response was to the Knight, who seems to believe that if God allowed his created life forms to evolve using the laws of nature he created, as presumably opposed to creating each organism individually in its final form, this would for some reason make Him evil.
Possibly I just look at it from an odd angle, but it seems to me there is somewhat of a parallel between the notion of evolution and free will. In neither case is the outcome completely predictable.
Maybe God likes that.