Origin story

So I was writing a paper on Dante and I came up with an idea for a story. Like most of my ideas, it's probably been done before by someone famous who I've never heard of, but to me it's original. I'm not saying I believe any of this is true, just that it would be an interesting take on history and especially the events of the Bible, and a really good setting for an epic adventure story. Basically, the idea is that a supreme being creates the universe, and sets evolution and everything in motion, but doesn't anticipate humans evolving into self-aware beings. So humanity starts completely screwing with the divine plan, and the supreme being has to improvise. So the supreme being creates lesser beings to rule over individual groups of humans - The Greek, Norse, Hindu, and other Pantheons. Unfortunately, these lesser beings start telling the humans that they really created the universe, and leaving out any mention of the supreme being. This wasn't in the deal, and the supreme being tries to eliminate these false gods. Unfortunately, he does this too late - humans are already believing in and worshiping all kinds of things. And so the other gods are stronger now, because belief strengthens them, and mount a battle against the supreme being for control of the earth. The commodity they fight over is belief- Any god can shape physical things, but the ability to shape humans is elusive, and they can't figure out how to.
This, I think, is where I set the story - with a group of humans being commisioned by the supreme being to be his instruments in fighting the false Gods he himself created. Here it diverges from mirroring history and delves into a fantastic world populated by creatures from every mythology imaginable.
The scope here is enormous, so it will staying on the drawing board for a while, but I think I could do some really good things with this basic concept.
I know, I know, finish the two stories you've started already. I will, I will. I'm just putting this here so I won't forget it, and so you guys can give me feedback on the concept.

The Universal Soul Theory

Ok, so here it is. We start with the idea of reincarnation, of the sort where you get progressively better each time. The catch is, the cycle isn't connected to linear time. So you can be reincarnated before you were born, or even at the same time. That means there can be more than one copy of your soul. So, next twist, what if everyone has the same soul? Everyone who ever lived or ever will live is a reincarnation of the same person, each other getting incrementally better. Ok, final twist. What if the last incarnation is first chronologically, and it's God. God creates the cycle, but God is also the culmination of it. That's the universal soul theory. We are all the same person, and we're all god.

Descendant worship - or turnabout is fair play

Tons of societies worship their ancestors. It's common as dirt when it comes to belief systems. Most others still build in some kind of respect for those that came before. But when you think about it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I mean, you're better than your ancestors. More advanced, smarter, why should you worship them? In something that I right soon, I'm going to explore the idea of a society that worships their descendants - specifically, the culmination of the human race to which they will eventually give birth. Rather than worship a creator, they worship a creation that will eventually come to pass.
An interesting variation on this is the idea of a circular god. It states that this end point of creation will eventually go back and create the universe in the first place. In short, we are the product of our own ingenuity. Eventually, we will evolve to the point where we can create ourselves. It ensures that life goes on indefinitely - in a way.
Jonah deserves some credit for this random train of thought, since it was my pondering of his incredibly bizarre universal soul theory that led me to come up with it. I will post that intriguing theory here if he says its ok.

Now for my first real post: A new TV show idea! Since Stargate: Atlantis stole enough of my most promising idea that it would be plagiarism to use it, I've needed a new one. I really like this one, though. Right now I'm calling it Exodus.

Ok, basically, way in the future, the solar system is controlled by a ruthless theocratic dictatorship. The church controlls everything, and only their twisted religion is allowed. This religion prohibits intersteller travel, and the technique for it has been lost to time.
This all happened because, hundreds of years earlier, humans traveled the galaxy freely. One hapless human angered an extremely powerful alien race, and they responded by devasting human colonies on a drive towards Earth. Earth repelled the attack, but soon after the church came to power, and destroyed all stardrives, and anywhere where knowledge of them was kept, in the interest of protecting the planet.
Anyway, now some other religious groups still survive in secret, but heavily persecuted. They've formed an alliance to help eachother survive. When a Mormon teraformer, surveying a small moon of saturn, discovers a buried stardrive, this alliance prepares a fleet for the next great Exodus.
The pilgrims narrowly escape the Solar System, but outside must contend with hostile aliens as well as internal power struggles in their search for the "promised land".