Right, I'm addressing a solution to the problem of evil which naturally assumes that God exists, and the solution is based on Job and on the free will defense.

What you say about evolution being different from an experiment is like Einstein's contention that God doesn't throw dice. I like Bohr's response: "Stop telling God what to do."

Natural selection includes both structured and random factors, so some variables would be controlled and other would be randomized. Why couldn't that be a divine experiment? Why isn't that the purpose of human free will, to test our faith despite God's apparent absence? Why isn't that the lesson of Job?