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[Prometheus] (Spoilers) Why does everyone assume that the engineer was trying to destroy (reseed) life on Earth?

Dr. Shaw sends a message to the ship telling them that the engineer is planning to fly to Earth and release the black goo, thus wiping out humanity and assumedly every other species. I see no evidence for this, other than the engineer killing a few of the crew. We see him look at a hologram of Earth and then program his coordinates, but we don't have evidence of him heading towards Earth. Perhaps he was simply making a note of where the intruders came from before leaving for a different part of the galaxy. Most interpretations of the events assume that he was going to destroy Earth, and ignore other possibilities.
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This film is absolutely stuffed full of symbolism, even if it is lacking decent plot and writing. It's not just that the idea that the Engineers created humanity, but also actively participated in our development. That explains why there's a star drawing basically showing us exactly where to find them.

It's implied through the images that we see that Jesus was actually an Engineer sent to Earth to check up on our progress and (yep, you guessed it) the Romans crucified him. That's why the Engineers want to wipe out humanity, because we are too violent and killed one of their own. (You know, after all they did for us.)

If you don't believe me, from the horses mouth:

>**Movies.com**: We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

>**Ridley Scott**: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, "Let's send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it." Guess what? They crucified him.