Well said.
That's the thing about 'god', it seems to exist as a deep slide-image in the depths of each individual brain. (A dynamic one, not static ime!)
I thought you were being graceful including it in the mix, because it can hardly be cut out the mix just because we run into incredible difficulties communicating our personal god slide/image to other humans.
I hear the dilemma you're describing, and not sure if this helps or whose words i'm paraphrasing.. This universe is made up of god-electricity/divine electricity at root-level. All creatures have the inner blueprint to spiral up towards god/ess-hood. Environmentally, and in every way it's a divinely electric universe. Constantly, god/esses & conscious elements are coming into existence of their own accord & increasing gravities & crystallisation. The long march of self-actualisation.
Its probably even more binding than karmic law, since deities/god/esses have been leapfrogging & cutting through fences of karma for a long time. Their origin stories often contain such anomalies.
I do know/feel we were engineered too, and i'd love to see the team photo taken after they completed the work, clinking glasses etc, listening to whatever jukeboxes they snort their lines with

Inevitably the engineering would've been collaborative anyway. For example you could engineer a seed of course and then plant it, but then nurture comes into play..so i think our thaheritage would have been a team effort, multiple teams, opposing teams, a total rainbow fuck-bunker.
I like the way you presented and verbalised that there, seeing precisely where I was coming from.
I have really been drawn into disillusionment pondering the potential layers of nefarious wannabe Gods all observing in command and watch, and firm guard minding this little crater down here.
No question, now, in my mind that in whatever way we are engineered goods.
Nano or no nano. But I've seen enough with my own eyes, living fibers and more, to persuade me Nanotech in the human body is a thing.
But kings used to rule for 100,000's of years.
80 is so damn convenient.
I bet there were "problems" with generations (in a wider sense here lol).
Even capped at 200.
80 is a piece of piss. Dumbed down to shit, no time to figure.
Imagine living 500 years. Body age now what, well relatively young. 6? Depends how it's calibrated.
But whatever. What will crush my own faith, hope. Is seeing no sign ever of what I simply refer to as the ultimate divine supreme.
No imitators. Including Ra lol that swine.
And I do think lots unseen recently, I mean recently too! Time being relative but..
Other formats of advanced intelligent civilisation. I'll put it that way.
But I hold hope, belief, on a kind of calculation. Nah none of these powerful inbetweeners decide, ultimately.
They're all just out for a buck.
I do feel pretty low down on the ladder here in this pit too.
There must be, in my mind, something above. Supreme, holy.
But we have to climb this ladder, lol, "Snakes & Ladders" 80's board game.
It seems, unless there is a shortcut.
It is said, the "Pillars of Hercules" are the exit to this crater. By waterway. Now.
And that Columbus did not discover the Americas, but the exit to the crater.
I had a spectacular vivid dream about these two pillars, on a giant river huge valley, leading up out towards light.
A big dragon was poised far behind the pillars, appeared to be keeping guard.
I never had even heard of those pillars that time.
I understand exactly what you say. I haven't a clue what is ultimately true. So I try not to scrub too much out, in case.
Nor simply follow without being able to have conviction.