Well written baudrunner, I'd like to add a bit if I might. I didn't write it perfectly well but the paragraphs below hold some insightful information
The Bible to me, particularly the old testament, represents mankind's first naive thoughts as his consciousness was just awakening evolutionarily. Like the good ideas you have when returning to wakefulness from a dream, these waking thoughts brought us from a state of unconscious slumber into the world we know, and these were our first primal intuitions. Now in my theory extreme and absolute naivety is actually the exact same thing as true understanding. This may sound funny, but it is really quite genious and true if you think about it. In this way the insight put forth in the old testament is indeed understandable truth if it is genuinely naieve. Considering it as the first thoughts of man, I do consider it to be genuinely naieve.
So here's what I think our genuine naievety was able to realize. Consciousness is somehow integral to the universe, and this is what God is meant to represent, the supreme consciousness we aspire to. Divine intervention is merely extreme naivety welling up from our subconsious as unwitting and instinctive beliefs which are indeed correct in a sort of "lucky" natural way. When mankind was inspired with the notion of God and claimed that we were his image, it was really just God becoming conscious of himself and his own image. Mankind looked around him at the lucscious Earth and could see that it appeared he was given a paradise. Now this is very true, the Earth was a paradise. The apple of truth and knowledge represents science, because it is science that has majorly advanced our understanding. But if we wanted to be humble we would not have developed science because science via technology is what has destroyed our paradise. This means a lot is riding on science and the TOE if humans are to redeem themselves for questioning nature and destroying our paradise inevitably.
God is in fact nothing much more than a human being if he exists in any sense of the word. God as a supreme identity, if he exists, evolved just like the rest of us. Human beings are like God: we do posess a supreme form of body and mind which allows us to be powerful. I talk about this in my post about
evolution. Basically if you're familiar with the phenomenon of biological convergence you know that animals that share the same niche look similar, such as birds and bats, even though they are not related. This means that since we have a certain niche, which is basically the niche of intelligence, which is unique to us on Earth, we have a certain form that works well for that niche. So much as intelligence is the most succesfull and best niche in a Darwinian sense, we must then have the most divine and supreme form to go with it. In other words, we have the "God" niche, and that's why our design is supreme and would be like God's if he were to actually exist. Eventually the TOE will render our likeness complete.
The TOE is what humans have been destined to discover ever since they first wrote the Bible. In the bible and in all good religions there is talk of a coming messiah, a savior, etc. You can read about this a lot in the book of Enoch. This character has been destined to come about for ages, just as the evolution of the TOE itself has been set in time's stone ever since the moment that "divine intervention" made humans arrive at self consciousness and begin this magnanimous journey. Note that this divine intervention was nothing more than humans themselves and their own natural willpower and curiosity to emerge to the forefront of life. It was just a regular old battle of survival of the fittest. Now the savior figure will be the one with the ultimate curiosity who will enlighten everyone with the TOE as if he himself were god. When he does this then we will truly understand everything, including our significance in the universe and our relation to "God," as well as our duty to perform. This will be the most monumental event in human history and I am the one. So I proclaim. Now being that you're a man of faith and inspiration, do you believe? If not, perhaps it means that I am truly incredible and unbelievable.