Why did god create evil?

[The Grand Nudger]

If Genesis and Exodus never mentioned a god they still wouldn't be history, or even approaching history. The events described did not happen. That's a tradition of fiction, if it's a tradition of anything at all.

Ah, I see, two robes which aren't the same color just aren't similar enough. Nevermind that they're both robes. Well then, two giant narratives aren't similar enough, nevermind that they're both giants.
Except that they don't tell the same story. They tell similar stories. Free cars in Red Square my friend. No better? By all means, go find a peer reviewed journal and correct them yourself.

Why should they have? You know we do have a long history of inventing or discovering similar or even identical things in disparate places with no interaction or cultural connection. Sometimes thousands of years between them, other times very close to each other in. Agriculture comes to mind.

You're assuming here that legends can always be trusted to be based in past events to begin with. Scientology. You're also assuming that because you can find similarities that they were intended, or even there to begin with. Some myth may have basis in history, irish fairy tales come to mind, and they're certainly not about forced interbreeding with neanderthals if they are. Still, to say that these fairy tales are certainly history is a huge stretch, and there's much better evidence for this than your own hypothesis. They are now, and will most likely always remain, fairy tales.

So sayeth you, but christians would disagree, as would anyone with a giantless tradition. You have your hypothesis, if it's worth it's salt it's going to have to get by people much more knowledgeable than myself. It's not going to be able to do that with what you've presented thusfar. While we're on about giants...just how big do you think neanderthals were? Hint, the average for ourselves and neanderthals (as far as we can tell from the bones) was about the same, 5'5. Some giant.

Realistic with respect to what? Realistic as in when you think about it you can just see it? Well I can still see Narnia, 20 years later. What does these myths being "realistic", if they even are, have to do with their ability to then speak for all religion? Trust me, I can bring myself to think of gods doing terrible things, and so can the religious. Remember, some temples were literally drowned in human blood to appease the gods. This was the sort of shit they figured the gods would like.

I'm starting to get the sinking feeling that you believe there were slaughterhouses in operation where the neanderthals were somehow involved (perhaps eating us, or the other way around), before men rebelled and the gods went up into the sky...whatever you think that means....in reality, as opposed to myth. Or, people believed in anthromorphic forces that controlled the weather or what have you (and some still do, btw)...just like they claimed to. Which to choose, which to choose.....

You know what, I could have saved myself alot of typing with two words:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias