well, I have to admit that scientifically speaking there is in fact a point in the Raelian perspective...
and then... does it matter anyway, if the human race was gene-manipulated a few ten-thousand years ago ... if it's about to face the same (fate ?) even in foreseeable future ?
there is this Dogon calendar thingy, which is a bit too much of coincidence to be explained by just a random finding...
in all religions (I'm aware of) gods are associated with the sky in one or the other way
doesn't the respective chapter in the book of Genesis even read like a gene manipulation experiment ?
if we consider pure probability of 'life as we know it' on distant planetary systems, then it would be rather strange if it looked similiar to ourselves, but of course not if our ancestors have been 'manipulated' by extraterrestrians... oops
cheers, Tom