If the universe was a failure, as Papias and the others said, and if we take this to its logical conclusion, then the universe is worthless, and the matter within it is also despicable.  This opinion is well represented in the writings of the ancient Christians.  For example, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary quote Jesus as saying,

 

Matter caused a powerful emotion which stands against the way things should be, and this has disrupted the whole system.[1]

 

If you find the cosmos, you have only found a dead body.  And anyone who sees the cosmos as a dead body is superior to it.[2]

 

The cosmos and its matter are degraded elsewhere in the ancient Christian literature in the following terms:  "Matter was born from the depths of darkness,"[3] and "the cosmos came about with lies."[4]  The critics of this doctrine said about them, "They think matter began from ignorance, grief, fear, and bewilderment."[5]  These ideas also gave rise to a strong anti-materialist sentiment among early Christians, as they said, "Don't allow your material possessions to hold sway over you,"[6] and "unity eats matter with fire."[7]

 

     If we assume that matter is despicable, then it follows that flesh is also despicable, because flesh is made of matter.  Indeed, these ancient Christian sources assert exactly this, that flesh is despicable.

     They also assert that the creator of the human species was the chief of the angels who created the world, and that he was a fool.  This chief is commonly called the "demiurge."  The ancient sources also assert that there is a power, or multiple powers, above the demiurge, and that the higher power(s) have bestowed upon humans some element of true divinity.  Thus, our fleshly biology was created by the foolish demiurge and his blundering angels, but our spirit is made of something better.  The scriptures found at Nag Hammadi also provide quotes to this effect:

 

The demiurge said to his angels, "Let us create a human in the image of God and in our image,"[8]

 

The demiurge created humans partly in his image and partly in the image of those (aeons) that existed before him.[9]

 

The Logos secretly formed humanity indirectly through the demiurge and his angels… thus humanity is a cross of things on the good hand and things on the sinister hand.[10]

 

Seven she-male angels ejaculated into Mother Earth's belly button, and since then, the seven angels molded humans into flesh like their flesh, but also made them in the image of a man (Christ) they had seen (from above).[11]

 

The archons and powers "have trapped us in flesh."[12]

 

The cosmos is the result of a screw up.  The creator tried to create it eternally incorruptible, but he failed, because the cosmos has never been incorruptible.  Moreover, neither was the creator.[13]

 

Angels and demons worked to create a natural human, but it did not move for a long time.[14]

 

This last quote sounds a lot like evolution – it took us "a long time" to move, which can be interpreted to mean that it took a long time for us to rise above lower life forms. 

     There is also some evidence that Jesus Christ was aware of the fact that the earth is extremely old, as science has concluded, for according to The Apocryphon of James, Jesus said to the disciples,

 

Think about the time in which the cosmos existed before you and the time in which it will exist after you.[15]

    

     Taken together, these passages paint a picture of cosmic origins that is in tension with Genesis 1. 

     They also give us a literal understanding of Jesus Christ's statement that we must be "born again."  If God made flesh in the beginning and "saw that it was good," as Genesis 1 says, then we are already good, and so what is the point in being born again?  On the other hand, if flesh was created evil, by the hand of the wicked demiurge and his blundering perverted angels, then the need to be "born again" makes much more sense, and we can take his words literally at face value, as he himself advised,

 

Unless you are born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God… for that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit; so don't think too hard about my statement that you must be born again.[16]

 

     Christians who did not agree with these ideas nevertheless admitted that they existed from a very early date.  The late 2^nd century and early 3^rd century saw a flourishing of Christian literature, which, among other things, included extremely verbose and detailed explanations of what the "heretics" believed.  Among these Christian historians were Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, and most notably Irenaeus. 

     Hippoylutus and Irenaeus described the beliefs of a Christian leader named Saturninus as follows:  Based in Antioch, the oldest Christian community outside of Palestine, Saturninus asserted that the phrase in Genesis 1:26 "Let us make man in our image," was not really God talking, but actually the angels conversing with each other on how they would create humans – hence the plural "us."[17]  Although Irenaeus and Hippolytus criticized this doctrine, Saturninus actually taught it a century before these two, and was therefore closer to the apostolic age than were his critics.

     The ancient Christian sources also assert that the demiurge and his angels try to control humans through fear.  They pseudepigraphically "quote" Adam, who is made to say,

 

We were like immortal angels, and we were superior to the god who created us… but then we saw the god who created us, and we were scared, so we became his slaves.[18]

 

Click to read more about how ancient Christian Gnosticism is compatible with evolution.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.