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Whoa whoa whoa, hold on. it's never said that the Flood were created by the Forerunners only contained by them in the "containment facilities".
You're forgetting that the Forerunners, originally, are probably closer to humans than the infectious Flood. Guitly Sparks' smoking gun quote: "our lost time" aboard the Autumn (the Maw).
And anywho, the Covies fight the Flood outa self defense!
The Flood could have been a whole 'nother species found on a different planet (such like the various races of the Covenant).
The Forerunners realize that these strange ugly and vicious creatures actually are sentient (as we found out and as mentioned earlier in these posts), so after glassing the Flood Planets, (the Flood because of their consiousness and voracity are seen as a threat), they study them in Halo rings -huge prison worlds that make sure that "all sentient life" is destroyed if they are breached (hence eliminating the Flood threat but as a consequence, any other species to have evolved self-awareness).
Ok now if humans were Forerunner's why would they wipe themselves out too (we do have a sefl-preservation complex)? Did we just have faith that human life could re-evolve from the base forms of existences that were left after the firing of the Halo's? Did they move off to a very distant habitable galaxy? I think there's proof about the Halo's firing off before...in the game dialogue with 343GS... and we should remember that the Flood survive the Halo firing cause the infectious little guys aren't sentient! but they do need a sentient being to take over in order to reproduce/feast. So maybe the infectious forms are non-sentient but when they make contact with a brain cortex sufficient enough to grab onto - they then mutate it to serve it's own ugly Flood purpose.
Anyways if we/Forerunners created them then maybe it stems from one of Ackerson's evil plots -with mutating spartan DNA and stuff that eventually leads to Flood forms years later... like the ultimate weapon/soldier project that goes horribly horribly wrong...
[Edited on 6/25/2004 9:29:00 AM]