Bee: fair enough - a God that was not good might not necessarliy be evil. But you have to ask why an indifferent God would bother to create a world and people to then be indifferent to it.

You said "Note: I have not postulated that a god would necessarily be 'evil' if not 'good' - he/she/it might be simply indifferent or not inclined to interfere with a world set in motion"

But in an earlier post you wrote:
"It's difficult to see this kind of deity as entirely benevolent - wrathful, capricious, vengeful, yes"

Which sounds fairly close to a picture of an evil God to me.