Prometheus - Before Creation

Ridley Scott's 2012 film opens with the enigmatic, alien Engineers seeding a barren planet with life.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
(Genesis 1:1,2)

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