God as an extraterrestrial

Some comparatively new belief systems and books portray God as extraterrestrial life. Many of these theories hold that intelligent beings from another world have been visiting Earth for many thousands of years, and have influenced the development of our religions. Some of these books posit that prophets or messiahs were sent to the human race in order to teach morality and encourage the development of civilization. (See e.g. Rael). Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, suggested that life on Earth originated far away because of what he considered to be a minuscule timeframe allotted by scientists for the emergence of life on Earth.

This conception of God has also been used in fiction. The science fiction film Stargate and its spin-off series, for example, has it that the gods of Egyptian mythology were based on powerful aliens who came to Earth many millennia ago and whose advanced technology was taken by the ancients to be the power of gods.

See also

*God
*Names of God
*Conceptions of God
*Existence of God