All progress we have today is the result of reverse engineering the spacecraft from Roswell in 1947!
UFO cults are based in progressism.
Progressism is the bigger cousin of Nazi pure perfect race concepts as it sheds human race for an interest into higher races of higher technological development.
It is premised in the same concept of demoralization of genius. Indeed, no matter how easy or how smartly one gets it, one will eventually face a challenge.
Character lays in ability to overcome this challenge and failures. Arguments for dependency on inherent racial perfection or advanced alien genius completly sets up any one for giving up on failure.
Evolution presuposes that the old age of the universe means more advanced races exist, when we could ourselves manipulate genes to make advanced beings without waiting for Evolution to do its “holy deed”.
Thus an advanced race is solely based on the ability of a race to advance itself through sheer self determination, in much the same way God is described of making man in the Bible!