I believe that we are descendants of aliens. I think that the neanderthals and the like were wiped out by us or possibly "absorbed". That is why there is no missing link. The Bible tells in the first few verses about God coming here and creating Earth and "Man", it says he changed the Earth from a dark and void place, covered in water, to the green and life supporting Earth we now know. I just don't swallow the theory that God just is. I mean nothing just is. Everything comes from somewhere. God didn't just float around in space. He had to have transportation. In Genisis God says "us" or "we" several times , so he didn't come alone. He is not here now, so he had to have went back to where he came from. I don't believe that God is dead either. I believe He is a greatly advanced being from another world, thousands if not millions of light years away. I also believe that we are not the first advanced "Humans" to have ever lived on this planet. The ancient Egyptians were very technologically superior to us. They didn't leave the Earth or anything like that . It is just that over the millenia they were in so many wars and had so many different rulers that they eventually lost the technology they had. It has happened many times here on Earth and it will happen again. People say that science and God don't add up, but I believe that God is the greatest scientist of all. He created the universe. Show me a lab that can do that. It is no telling where He came from . Even if He is just a superior being from another dimension or what-ever, He is still a God to us.