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what measures would one use to determine what was the best possible world?
Like you said, God is good, and God created this world, therefore this world must be the best. This really gets into issues with what exactly is "good' and what is 'evil' but by most definitions, God is good and all that is good is God. So in order to refute the theory that all is for the greater good, one would have to rationalize an eternally good God with a world that is less than good. There is no "sufficiently good" world as an eternally good God would have to make this the best possible worlds. If a world is "sufficient" then there is obviously room for improvment, improvment that an eternally good God would be required to make.
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