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Actually understanding good and evil is quite simple.

"Evil" can only result from free will. Only man can do evil, because only man has free will. Evil is deliberately doing the wrong thing. That which you call "the devil" is a created being who has turned away from God, but created beings can never be equal to God.

The other "ills" that befall living things are part of the greater good. For example, if a crocodile ate your child, you wouldn't like that, but the crocodile needs to eat, so that's not evil. Similarly with disease. You don't like getting West Nile, but it's good for the West Nile virus.

Genetic diseases are part of the process that allows individuals to be different. Without the possibility of an ancephalic child, there is no possibility of Mozart or Michaelangelo. So that's not evil, either.

That which you call "the devil" is a created being who has turned away from God,

If everything God created was good, as the Bible states, then how could anything He created turn away from Him (which would be bad)? Since He did not create evil, who did? My point is that you can't logically have a world of both good and evil powers created by an "Only Power" which is "Only Good". You have to believe in two powers or gods and that is contrary to monotheism (Christianity).

"Evil" can only result from free will. Only man can do evil

That means evil is a creation of man. So man can create what God did not? Man has the power to rival God? God created man in His image (good), how can the image of good create evil?