He does not need to employ the means we do, since his powers are limited only by the laws of logic. For some time now defenders of theistic religions have identified moral goodness, and the freedom which moral goodness presupposes, as the goods God was seeking when he decided to create a world which would contain evil. We can call this the free will defense . There are a number of things we might say about the free will defense, most of which I won't attempt to pursue here. And it might be felt that the benefits of endowing humans with freedom do not outweigh the costs.
Human beings are free .
The evils resulting from human freedom are greater than the goods resulting from that freedom. Now the case is quite different. Leibnizian optimism 1. Candide spends most of the novel trying to decide whether or not Pangloss is right. Candide's ultimate rejection of Pangloss' philosophy is a rejection of Leibniz.