If Humans Were Gods

The premise of Rael's book Intelligent Design is that Earth was a scientific experiment created by an alien species that remarkably resembled highly advanced humans. The ensuing creation narrative that Rael is told by these aliens is a series of scientific explanations for biblical verses, an explanation so inherently tied to human experiences and understandings that it no longer felt spiritual. If the claims that the creators, Elohim, are aliens is ignored, the story is quite simply how human understanding of science could explain the existence of life. Using scientific logic to reason through the biblical creation narrative is perhaps the most human explanation that could possibly be given, as it does not allow for the divine to have knowledge that could never be attained by humans. Rael consistently says, in fact, that humans can gain the scientific knowledge their creators have, that the only thing making the Elohim divine is more knowledge because of a longer span of existence. Essentially this means that the Elohim and humans are the same, they created humans but they are not really divine. So, although the fact that they're aliens is meant to make you think they are like gods, this creation story is more or less a story of humanity creating humanity, or if humans were gods.