Well, i don't believe in gods or any kind of superior forces and i don't believe we've been created by anything other than natural evolution, so that drastically limits my input to this thread.
To me, as an intelligent species, it's our duty to study and understand as many things as we can, there is no limit to what we can learn.
As for Michel de Nostredame, hehe, he was a clever guy who wrote a lot of stuff that basically mean nothing but are vague enough so anyone can actually see different meanings in it, lol, he's a bit like Shap and his projects.