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I've seen it suggested in several places that there's a significance to the fact that the Engineers were trying to get back to Earth 2,000 years ago to, presumably, wipe the planet of humans using the black goo. The implication, of course, would be that this has something to do with Jesus (2000 years would put the timeframe within 60 years of the Jesus mythology). One suggestion I heard was that Jesus was really an engineer and that the cruxifiction of Jesus pissed off the engineers. This doesn't make sense to me because there's never any mention, in the Bible, that Jesus is a 10' tall albino body builder. There is a story in the testament about David and Goliath, though, that would make more sense. Even this would be a stretch but if there was a biblical tie-in this one would make more sense to me. My take on it is that these engineers are terraformers and they were simply making life-supporting planets ready for habitation. I've only seen this movie one time but from what I recall, Earth was portrayed in the beginning as being very "young". The landscape looked devoid of even trees. So perhaps the black goo is a terraforming agent that accelerates life but animal life is an undesired consequence of this. Eventually, they come back to their projects and wipe away the animal life with this black goo. I don't know. Another thing that bothers me is that the gap in time between the ritual sacrifice at the beginning of Prometheus and the present day of the movie had to have been millions of years based on the fossil records on Earth. I'm assuming that the Engineers seeded all animal life on Earth and not just humans so that means dinosaurs and their extensive history needs to be explained. In any case, then the question becomes "Why wait until circa 100 AD to destroy life on Earth?". So then maybe instead of calling these guys terraformers we should call them Farmers and maybe the black goo is analogous to Round Up and they were just doing a little weeding.
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Mala'kak@ Prometheus is mainly based on the works of Erich Von Däniken, author of "The Chariots of the gods" and other works that claimed that the aliens created men. Two scenes in particular show the anti-Christian character of the film. First, Jesus is described as an alien who was sent to observe us, but was killed by Roman Empire. Therefore the Mission of punishment of the Earth started 2000 years ago. This confirmed by Ridley Scott in recently interviews. The crucifix symbolizes the new faith of Liz Shaw. Later, at the end of the movie, Liz, retrieves his crucifix and says that they have had their faith returned. In fact, she changed her faith, of a Jesus who is God, in Jesus, which is an alien. So goes the planet from engineers, to meet this new Jesus.
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There are subtle hints to the Bible, but i dont think the movie is going the whole Bible route... The Chariots of the Gods is basically the Ancient Astronaut theory and that is they both try and tie in the many similarities with Ancient God Worship and depiction of higher beings with them being Alien Visitors. Prometheus is basically going for a similar route to that, and it may hint some connection with the Bible but then as with the Ancient Astronaut theory, this also tries to tie elements of the Bible just being a interpretation of Ancient Astronauts. I think of all the Ancient beliefs etc Prometheus does share a fair share with the Tale of the Annunaki

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BigDave @ I really enjoyed reading your explanation, Bigdave, but in Anunnaki theory the scientists wanted to demonstrate that the modified monkeys were something else, something that could use in the future and decided to modify them, mixing himself anunnaki DNA with the modified monkeys, but there are no monkeys in Prometheus similar as it appears in 2001 Space Odyssey, only a spiritual scene at begining, It is a scene of sacrifice even the intention is the same.

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