[cowhead]

well.. geez on the serious topic..

the devil is a construct of the catholic (christian) church as a means to scare the populous into submission, which is also based on the greek god Pan, in order to win more converts they co-opted a great deal of the older religions iconography in orded to insinuate themselves with the existing 'mythology' and there by (in the greatest marketing ploy in history) associate themselves with existing traditions and events and slowly destroy those events/remove non-christian identification from them (ie. easter/halloween/christmas and there are quite a few others.

So, in my humble opinion good and evil are constructs of the human mind, the basic difference between animal desires and the overall well being of society.. respectively evil and good (duh but you knew that).

as I'm in kansas I'm not getting into the debate about creation (or rather 'intelligent design') vs. evolution. both have holes (some more than others)