Comment The real religious explanation (Score 0, Offtopic) 390
Read the Book of Enoch - Dead Sea Scrolls & Sumerian texts, they tell the same story. The whole Christian theology is a corruption of the official records. Roman Emporer Constantine was so fed up with the 200 odd Christian religious factions fighting it out in the Roman Empire that he called a group of their leaders together in around 300AD (The Councils of Nicea). They were told to come up with a 'standard' belief. As no record of Jesus exists until he was 30 years old, they invented the virgin birth, King Herod, and all of the other twaddle. They even copied existing documents such as the Egyptian Book of The Dead, and paraphrased all existing religious scripts from around the globe in doing so. The stories in the Bible are not originals at all, identical ones exist in scores of ancient texts, right down to the 'miracles' and names.
At this point the Roman Catholic Church was formed..and bingo, you have a Control Group that has made millions out of the fiction ever since. It's why there are such close ties between governments and the Roman Catholic church.
The Book of Enoch is not in the Bible, and not without good reason. The Sumerian tablets tell the same story, as do most other ancient civilizations. We are descended from sky gods. That is why no one will ever find the missing link, there isn't one. We were created by cross breeding with visitors. It's all documented.
According to Babylonian documents, the Anunnaki were the children of Anu and Ki, brother and sister gods, themselves the children of Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles). Anshar and Kishar were the children of Lahm and Lahmu ("the muddy ones"), names given to the gatekeepers of the Abzu temple at Eridu, the site at which the Creation was thought to have occurred. The head of the Anunnaki council was the Great Anu, (rather than being just a sky god, Anu in Sumerian actually means "sky"), of Uruk and the other members were his offspring. His place was taken by Enlil, (En=lord, lil=wind,air), who at some time was thought to have separated heaven and earth. This resulted in an ongoing dispute between Enlil of Nippur and his half brother Enki of Eridu regarding the legitimacy of Enlil's assumption of leadership. Enki, (En=lord, Ki=Earth), in addition to being the God of fresh water, was also God of wisdom and magic, regarded by some as an alchemist. When the Igigi went on strike and refused to continue to work maintaining the universe, on the Shappatu (Hebrew. shabbat, Eng. sabbath) Enki created humankind to assume responsibility for the tasks the Gods no longer performed.
The Anunnaki were the High Council of the Gods, and Anu's companions. They were distributed through the Earth and the Underworld. The best known of them were Asaru, Asarualim, Asarualimnunna, Asaruludu, En-Ki (Ea for the Akkadians), Namru, Namtillaku and Tutu.
These civilzations were thousands of years old, they could not have invented this stuff, it has to be real. The Church will do anything it can to prevent people accepting it as the truth as they will lose their power base, influence and wealth if they do so, and along with them go world governments.
Best bet for simple explanation is 'Zeitgeist The Full Movie - Latest Edition' on Google Video.