all physical evil must be necessary to the moral purposes of God in granting free choice and in producing the greatest good. In view of these directives, let us examine several reasons for physical evil that, when taken together, seem to explain one hundred percent of the evil in the world. Ten Reasons for Physical Evil 1. Some physical evil comes to us directly from our own free choices. It is good to be free, and freedom is an essential part of a moral world. A puppet creation is not a moral one.