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There are portions of scripture, in the Psalms in particular, where it is stated about God that He knows what I'm going to say before I say it. The same Psalm, I believe states that God knows "when I sit and when I rise", as well as "my going out" and coming in. The psalmist states something like "all my days are numbered by God." It may not come right out and say that God knows the future, but it certainly gives that impression. The other aspect is that much of the prophetic writings came true, historically speaking. Provided that the prophesy orriginated from God and He gave the prophet the words to say/write then we could conclude that God knew what was going to happen before it did.
As for the why did(does) God allow evil? Look at all the good in the world that has come from someone experiencing great adversity. If not for adversity, which some call evil, many of our great leaders in the world (and history) may never have turned out as they did. Just as in your body, you give yourself resistance so that you can develop strength, evil in the world provides the resistance necessary to develop certain character qualities. C.S. Lewis call life a "vale of soul making". You put new, imperfect, people in it (as infants) and under pressure and resistance from evil, at the end of life, out come people of character.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
----Albert Einstein
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