Opening sequence and where the ship went at the end.....

Oh noes, I hope the filmmakers aren't really trying to sell the idea that humans are the apex of evolution. 'Cause that would go against every fibre of my evolutionary biologist's being. POOH.

I believe in the opening sequence the 'sacrifice engineer' uses a biological substance they have created to break down his body into its simplest amino acidic forms or DNA and produce life from there. Eventually this evolves to form Human life as the planet on which he does it is an early Earth. As for the ship, they are traveling to the homeworld of the engineers, to discover why humans were created and why they would produce the xeno bio-weapon to destroy humanity. Though it could be years before we see a film.

the point of the opening sequence was to show that the engineers made man and by exposing his DNA into the oceans evolution stared and as for the ship at the end it had Shaw and Dave onboard travelling to the Engineers planet to try and find out why they want to destroy mankind this point was made by Shaw

my theory the engineers plant life on a planet in order to grow a complete habitable ecosystem primed with their own DNA , then they wipe out the bits they don't need (like weeds) and insert themselves.

so why go through the whole evolutionary process. it seems like all life will eventually lead to the humanoid form (the ultimate form in the evolutionary process).

Maybe it is simpler to go from hospitable planet to hospitable planet and sacrifice one engineer than it is to ship all the resources from some far off place to colonize the planet.

The idea that the engineers are 'inseminating' Earth with their DNA seems to be a recurring answer. But why in such a barbaric way? Why sacrifice? Surely SUCH an advanced race could find a better way. I really hope RS does make a Prometheus 2, because there are too many unanswered questions. Let's just hope that another director doesn't pick up the torch and run at a tangent

i think its quite a good idea - it will satisfy some. maybe humans are continuing to evolve. but there is such a massive gap of sophistication in thinking between humans and the next life form that this idea can succeed. the xenos seem so much better at evolving or adapting to circumstances and so much more difficult to kill off. its just surprising there aren't as intelligent as the humanoid form - meaning they dont seem able to develop tools/weapons or build large structures to increase there chances of survival. they are the ultimate virus/parasite though.

I have always been fond of the theory that the engineers are so advanced they are able to plot out lines of evolution. Hence starting with single celled lifeforms and eventually getting human by sacrificing onesself. It would also explain why the mural on the temple had the fully fledged xeno carved onto the wall even though we have established the life cycle from xeno cobra through insemination through to facehugger birth through to facehugger attachment and xeno birth are altered by the hosts at various stages, it seems viable that they always knew what the result what be. Hence they sacrifice themselves breaking themselves down for a final goal of creating humanoids.

I also think the opening sequence shows one of the "engineers" sacrificing himself. The ship is looking for him to keep him from doing so. That's the real meaning of Prometheus. (Not to mention the Christian death-resurrection-eternal life theme.) Less clear is why the engineers want to kill us. But it's intriguing that they date the death of the engineers in the dome to about 2000 years ago. That's the dawn of the Christian age on Earth.