Seems odd that the Engineers didn't really advance too much as a culture or tech

35,000 years? i took the intro scene where the first Engineer sacrifices himself to be primordial earth...which would mean it was 4 billion years ago. his DNA is shown breaking down, and i inferred that these were the first simple life forms, which eventually evolved into something resembling the original creature; the Engineer. that's just how it came across to me though, because that's the only thing that makes sense in my mind. but your point is even more valid if the time frame is 4 billion years. the Engineers don't seem to have evolved at all, except maybe their technology. but that doesn't even seem like it's changed a hell of a lot. so maybe they haven't been advancing; their species met some untimely fate some time after then seeded the planets of the galaxy, and a few small outposts just happened to contain survivors. those survivors could've then devoted their time to developing an ultimate organism to get back at whatever alien race destroyed them? this is pure speculation, obviously.

Define the evolution you expect them to have? Take what we KNOW now of the Engineers. 1. They've been around for a while 2. They created man 3. Something bad happened on that ship and a lot of them died But we don't know much else. In terms of technologically advanced, i would assume creating life would be advanced enough.

Or maybe they mastered time so a time frame is irrelevant :-P his is way off topic of the movie haha....

I take that back because if they mastered time they wouldn't need cryo chambers...

Nope, nope and nope. The Sacrifice Guy, as [url=http://ifonlyuk.com/interviews/interview-daniel-twiss/]Daniel Twiss[/url] (actor under 70 slabs of Engineer [i]meat[/i]) feels, to me, like an ABANDONED soul, someone punished, exiled to be reborn time and again, like Prometheus liver. And they certainly DON'T LOOK THE SAME, that first guy looked more than a little soft-faced or (dare I say it) 'Mongoloid'. The last one looked less pouting, more businesslike. Who was that last Engineer actor? Not this guy ... http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/406f93a6ad85d1364a735b585bfe3cc4aaace506_m.jpg Anyway, they had CULTURE spilling out of every orifice, if the 'wall decorations' are anything to go by. I wish the film would have let David EXPLAIN the heiroglyphs - he's clearly read the sequel script. And EVOLVED doesn't necessarily mean 'changed a lot' as 'evolved' means "My random genetic mutations haven't crippled me within my environment," look at ANTS who've not changed in millions of years; sharks.

Well, as they have been "designed" by a higher caste, designed to "serve" and to do their jobs, they are perfect and there may nothing what could be "better". So they stayed in their shape for billions of years (not like on earth where everything "changes" a lil bit and after a long time you have something completely different). They stay the same and serve their masters and get their orders. And they do it well, they dont have to be "changed or optimized".

Why would they need to evolve? if there's nothing stopping a individual from passing their genes on to the next generation, and there is no environmental influence that also denies them this opportunity then there is no reason for evolution to occur. This is assuming engineers aren't clones readily made from one template, in that case again it's unlikely.

I never used the word evolved! I said advanced. And they obviously make "mistakes" because they were killed by their own creations and hence the may still need to "learn" a new thing or two and hence (again) which would mean that they would/could advance...

Until they are like the "Q's" in Star Trek haha...

In 4 billion years you would have assumed they would had colonised more of the galaxy since they were actively seeding life on earth, why not others For a species that was capabile of interstellar flight 4 billion years ago they made little progress with space travel. Promethus seemed almost on par technology wise with the engineers ship.

Neither did we, neither did most species. The first 75,000 years of our existence were slow, ponderous and uneventful. It's not unusual.