My Theory After Midnight Screening

I fully expected to walk out of the movie with at least SOME idea of what is happening. After walking out knowing exactly what I knew walking in(about the Makers), I was a bit disappointing. Yes, there is nothing wrong with leaving some room for imagination, but there are tasteful ways of doing it(Inception) and then there are ways which answer nothing at all. Prometheus was in between. Anyways, so like many, I took to the internet to find possible answers. And after reading quite a lot, I have a vague idea of how I think this is going to shape out. In the temple, we see an image of an "alien" like life form, in many ways it seems like an image depicting admiration. You couple that with the Alien's life cycle and you have... The movie centered around life and the creation of life. The power it takes to create a life, even a synthetic life, brings about many moral questions. At what point do we decide that this is a sentient being and not just artificial? At one point do our creations decide for themselves? In the movie, David routinely seems to hold a grudge against humans. Still with a programmed devotion to Waylan but more keen on life. There was quite a deal of time spent watching David go about his days, soaking up information and learning about culture, history and forming his own ideas and thoughts. I think he has come to the conclusion that creations will ultimately destroy their creators. In order to give life, it must first be destroyed. This concept was constant throughout the film: the relationship between Wayland and his daughter, the pregnancy of the woman after her boyfriend is given the black goo(names escape me), the beginning scenes in which an Engineer "sparks" life... So my theory: The Engineers were vessels of reproduction for the Alien beings. The worshiped them as God's and sacrificed their own bodies in order to allow the alien breed to continue. The black goo seems to spark genetic changes to even the smallest organic life(like the worm that turned into cobra vagina). Let's call this black goo "fire" so we can relate it to the myth of Prometheus. So, this Engineer race lived it's life that way. Constantly having to sacrifice themselves in order to create their creators. This would explain the fact that all Engineers seem to look the same and that there are no female's(at least that I know off) among their species. They were solely a vessel for the alien species to use. However, like all good movies about synthetic life, the created life eventually figures out it is getting the wrong end of the stick. So what do they do? They create OTHER "synthetic" life in their image(remember we feel more "comfortable" if the synthetics "look" like us -- per David) Just like David, their sole purpose was to rid themselves of the burden of being the Alien's hosts. However, a sect went rogue. The sect believed in THEIR OWN rights to exists and therefore committed the ultimate sin/sacrifice: created humans in an attempt to create a "free" species of themselves. The ability to give birth to others like us. They visited us, warning us about the storage facilities for the black goo, expecting us to be weary of this location. HOWEVER, the other Engineers find out. In an attempt to make humans another subservient species, they send out a representative, a sort of "son of God" type of person. I think y'all know who I'm talking about. The difference between the previous times they visited and Jesus' visit? Social development of human kind. Advancement both physically and mentally. Before we were just cave creatures, completely dependent on these life forms that visited us...we were just animals. Now? Full fledged vengeful humans. So, this Jesus they sent tries to woo us into believing he is salvation and he is the son of God. Why? I think that sacrificing their own body to give birth to the Aliens WAS the way to reach God. Maybe they convinced themselves that in order to reach "heaven" they must sacrifice themselves for the aliens. A sort of "rebirth" for them after their first life. Of course, we humans were like "nah, I don't think so" and killed their peace maker. Hence, they prepare a full on attack on earth. We had become too advanced for their liking and had to wipe us out quickly. However, one of the rogue sect's members gets a whiff of this and unleashes the genetic black goo upon the storage facilities(which due to the number of them seen in the movie, seems to be more like a warehouse. Once a planet is populated, they send out a ship to either harvest or give birth to the Aliens on that planet) This last part I'm not too confident on. Well, less confident I should say. Another idea that came up as I type this...what if there is ONLY one alien queen(one God) So when she got a whiff of what the Engineers were doing(not sacrificing themselves, instead creating humans) She feared the humans ability to mate and recreate themselves, so she unleashed an attack on the bases before they could send out the goo to give the humans the key to LIFE. Or maybe, it was the Engineers goal to create more queens in order to overthrow their Alien creator. Hence the females in our race. Or...maybe Jesus was a test. Maybe they were WAITING to see how we reacted to another being claiming omnipotence over us, to see if we would be just another subservient species just like they were...once they realized that we WEREN'T about all that, they decided to trust us with the key to life...but not before an opposing sect or an Alien plan to stop them went underway. Yes, I ran out of energy as I typed this. But I just needed to share with people that care. B/c obviously my gf fell asleep during the movie. Women.