Why Did God Allow Evil?

According to the bible, we are psychosematic creatures. So when our first parents messed things up, this wasn't just an inner, spiritual messing this spread out to the natural world. In the book of romans, we are told that the whole creation groans and travails. That's why the telephone always rings when you're in the bathtub. The whole human race is responsible for the mess that we are in. Every parent knows this. You've got to give your children the latitude to make free decisions.