God the father

Imagination is part of being human.  I have no reason to believe it has ever been otherwise.

Of course sharing our thoughts and ideas now is easier than it was thousands of years ago and we can share them with more people than ever, which probably sparks more imaginative ideas.  I don't know why anyone would believe we need aliens to explain our pyramids and mythology.

Limiting God, to one man-like creature creating a little planet diorama in something as great as this place we call the universe seems like explaining a nuclear bomb as a big bang.

Stories are written by people who write according to the understanding of their time.  If evolution began somewhere out in space and arrived here with the seeds for all life, it is easy for me to imagine it being explained in a simpler version to people whose entire lives were probably limited to a very small part of this earth.

That doesn't rule out God, it only puts God in terms an undeveloped race can understand.  Much like the way we tell children stories until they are old enough to understand more.

A godly father fits into the idea quite easily.

A power great enough to create the actual building blocks of life probably is not limited by what I understand.

I like to think that this power, by any name, is greater than anything I can comprehend.  A discernible power whose enormity is beyond man's ability to describe.  A power put to shame by the small minded attempts humanity has made to describe this entity with all the human frailties and foibles of a power hungry father.

That being said, I have no problem with people giving God a gender and name that make it possible to speak about and to "him"  as long as they don't believe he is made in their image and speaks only to them.  That is where sacrilege starts and imagination sets in.