Evil is as evil does

It is interesting to dialogue with young people about the difficult philosophical problems which, by and large, our hedonistic world has tended to ignore...on a side issue, what we will do with a future in which our young people have not been taught to think properly...This young woman (one of the holy and blessed three who is related to me by ancestral descent) was grappling with her philosophy paper, The existence of evil proves that God does not exist or something like that.
Now I am no philosopher but it was interesting to bat it backwards and forwards. My answer really is...the existence of evil actually supports the existence of God.
Point 1: We wouldn't really call 'natural disaster' evil at all. The lack of any element of free choice renders them morally neutral.It is perhaps unfortunate that we use the emotive word "disaster". Why don't we just characterise it as one of a range of events. If we called this a "natural event", then would the question of evil come up at all in this sense.
(By the bye I must admit that the accompanying picture...the first that came up on Google when I typed in flood....is quite disturbing because it looks rather like our current car!!)
But of course the point of interest is
Point 2: The acts of evil that individuals choose to do. Why, if God exists, did he not create people to do good. The answer is, in a classic sense...or a classic Christian sense any way...God created humanity to be in relationship with him. More than that the desire was that we might love him. Now the nature of love is such that it must be the fruit of free choice. Love not given freely is not "love" at at all.
So if the choice has to have any meaning, then there must be the choice to love and the choice to not love. If there is no choice then there is no love. That it is clearly demonstrable (from experience) that some people choose to not love, or to do evil rather than good thus points to the reality of a God who is the originator of choice. The fact that some choose to do good and some choose to do evil, seems to suggest that we are not just products of evolution all moving in generally the same direction, but rather that we are free agents. Free agents because this distinctly unevolutionary characteristic is part of what God has made us to be .....being continued (perhaps by you now rather than me...what do you think?)