Come on! where are all the Christians? :(
Without God, good and evil do not exist.
Without God, morality is an opinion. the concept of human rights is irrelevant.
think of evil as a void. A void (or a hole) can only exist inside of something (like clothes for example)
So let's go about it like this:
clothes = good
hole in clothes = evil
no clothes = no evil
no clothes = naked
the other big one is "if God were all Good/all powerful/all loving he would destroy evil....
evil exists. Therefore, God isn't all Powerful. Not the way you'd expect Him to be anyway.
Evil is the absence of GOOD, which only comes from God. the state of "Evil" is a rejection of Good, which is evil in itself. The false assumption is that God would DEFEAT evil or OVERCOME.
God in his all Goodness allows existence for everyone to continue, as existence is Good. God stated that his name is "I AM" which means EXIST, so all existence is a product of God, outside of God there is nothing.
The state of existence varies, heaven / hell, but the existence is still Good. So evil can only be Good in one way... that the POSSIBILITY to choose evil exists, the choice of evil is evil. but the possibility to choose is not evil.
Patrick :)