[emerged]

That line of thinking is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, although I think at its root it is purely semantic.

If you understand the physics of a ball rolling down a hill, the concept of motion doesn’t become truly odd to believe. The concept is still there and still matters, you just understand it in more detail.

Evil is another such emergent abstraction. The meaning is there regardless of the details of what lower level details it emerges from.

[exo-pla-net]

A closer analogy is continuing to believe that motion is caused by invisible angels pushing on objects, after you understand physics.

You could argue that the laws of physics are the tools that the angels use to do their pushing, but you'd then be entering the realm of absurdity. Angels are unnecessary to understand motion.

Same goes for evil. After you understand the basics of human psychology, and you accept the largely deterministic nature of everything, insisting that evil is the driver for certain acts is as absurd as a belief in physics angels.

Evil is not an emergent abstraction. It's a fiction and a religiously-tied social tool used to demonize opposing tribes, justifying destroying them, as well as to control a group's behavior/identity (it's evil to worship false idols, etc.).