I found this an interesting email I got forwarded.

> Who Created Evil?
>
> As you read this, I challenge you to really let it's meaning sink in. This
> eloquently answers one of the profound questions of life.
>
> Did God Create Evil?
> The university professor challenged his students with this question:
>
> "Did God create everything that exists?"
>
> A student bravely replied "Yes, he did!"
>
> "God created everything?" the professor asked.
>
> "Yes sir," the student replied.
>
> The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil
> since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define
> who
> we are, then God is evil."
>
> The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students
> that he had proven once more th at the Christian faith was a myth.
>
> Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question
> professor?"
>
> "Of course," replied the professor.
>
> The student stood up and asked, "Professor , does cold exist?"
>
> The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"
>
> The students snickered at the young man's question.
>
> The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the
> laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat."
>
> "Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits
> energy, and heat is what makes a body, or matter, have or transmit energy.
> Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat. Cold does
> not
> exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no
> heat."
>
> The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
>
> The professor responded, "Of course it does."
>
> The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not
> exist
> either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light, we can study,
> but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light
> into many colors and study the various wave lengths of each color. You
> cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of
> darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is?
> You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a
> term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
>
> Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"
>
> Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already
> said.
> We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to
> man.
> It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
> These
> manifestations are nothing else but evil."
>
> To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does
> not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like
> darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of
> God."
>
> "God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does
> not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes
> when
> there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
>
> The professor sat down.
>
> The young man's name --- Albert Einstein

Note: appearently it wasn't Albert Einstein. None the less the argument is sound.