No. I said evil, which defined as the absence of Good, is the result of bad choices by beings given free will by their Creator. And absence is normally relative, IOW, a person can be evil or act that way but there still be some Good in them. It is like the difference between light and dark. Dark does not really exist, it is a relative expression of the absence of light.
Sorry, may have said it poorly. My meaning was that God is certainly capable of creating a world where beings are not able to choose to act against Good. Then it would be impossible for such beings to "do evil". My point was I could not see how such beings could also have "free" will. That is not the world God made. In this world we are free to choose good or not.
I am not so sure we could conclude that. It would require knowing God was surprised by these acts of defiance (had no foreknowledge it would happen). Am not sure how or on what basis we could say that.
Also assumes God could not have made a world where beings did not have such choices. Even though I cannot understand how such a world would work if they also had free wills, on what basis do we know that God could not have done it? Lower animals do not have free will, so even though it seems beneath our diginity as intelligent creatures, I could not say it is impossible for God to create intelligent life without giving it free will. Am just not sure that would be a good thing.
Not omniscient, I think it is more correct to say this world, certainly less than ideal, is the best possible or else it would be some other way.
Saying not omniscient also implies God did not have a plan for this possibility, the possiblity that creatures He had given free will would act against Good. Not sure how to conclude that either, especially since most of the Bible deals with the expression of that plan. In the end of that plan, the world is restored to the former state it was created in, no evil.