This verse came up in a thread before I took a few days away and I thought about it in a different way. Isaiah 45:7, “I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.” To clarify the translation the word prosperity is the original is peace and the word calamity is evil. Is it possible to have peace without knowing what evil is? this isn’t a philosophical question it is a a question of logic. mankind does not have the ability to know what darkness is if there were not the opposite (the light) with which to compare it. Likewise we would not know understand peace if there was no opposition to it. I couldn’t think of anything that mankind has ever crafted that has these dynamics illustrated to such extremes.