I voted yes and here's why, more than once people who have been technically "dead" in a hospital and survived have told of some "out of body" experiences where they could see themselves getting treatment. Now it's easy to dismiss those experiences because of what the subconscious mind can conger up, specially with the body going through a lot at the time, but what freaked me out was how some could actually describe in detail what was happening in the rooms around them when they had these experiences, they were "on their way" but got called back when they lived, it wasn't their time..
Plenty of people also believe things like psychics or astrology forecasts or mind readers. We're easy to fool, and we often see patterns or correlatations where there are none.
Factor in the idea that our brains are all basically built the same, and you're going to end up with some common failure modes as the brain starts to shut down.
You don't think G-d would have the decency to follow the prime directive? If G-d exists, he doesn't want to spoil our sense of independence by being all like, "I made your whole shit, now bow down, bitches".
Prime Directive stuff is just our cultural tendency of "mind your own business," taken to the next level.
We put microorganisms into petri dishes and make them do our bidding.
And we will certainly just screw with them for our own amusement. Or sometimes we'll incorporate them into food, give them all the food they could want, and
then it's time for a high-temperature cataclysm.
(I'm tellin' ya, we're screwed here. Yeast in bread: They're there to make carbon dioxide and alcohol, and then they get cooked to death en masse. Humans are
also good at making carbon dioxide and alcohol. And we're in proximity of a nuclear furnace that is more than 99% of the Solar System's mass. Yep, we're dead.)