How do the detractors explain the Eternals? They are explicitly a splinter race of humans who've evolved due to Celestial interference, exactly like mutants, but they are so long lived and powerful that they have been worshipped as Gods across the world. They are every bit as powerful as the Olympians or the Asgardians
An Eternal Skrull and a Deviant Skrull were both elevated into becoming the focus of the Skrull religion