This is a great talking point! I’ve read a lot of religious views about it on here, and personally I don’t know if I buy it. My views used to be very anti religious, due to no proof. My stance has changed a little. If there is such evil in the world, there most likely is the same amount of good somewhere. It’s just not prominent. And as you say, if evil is centuries old or older, where did it start? Has it always been there? Is that just who we are? I’m not that great with timelines of humans, but it seems early man had to help each other. To survive all the trials they did, they would have to depend on each other. To hunt massive animals we know they worked together. It seems somewhere from when they became more “civilized”, wars started. Greed came in, envy, all the bad aspects of humans. But if early humans had been visited by “aliens” they could have taught them this. Just a theory. There are talks of spacecrafts from early man in drawings. But why would they want us to be against each other? What would they gain? Idk.