WATCHMEN's Dr. Manhattan as a Mormon God?

In an interesting article in The American Spectator, Jeremy Lott draws comparisons between Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan and God as seen in the Mormon faith.

Traditional Christianity is rooted in the belief that God became man; Mormonism is more ambitious still. It holds out the promise that men can become gods, albeit gods whose will must conform to the will of Heavenly Father and the whole heavenly council that includes Jesus and the Holy Spirit (...) The LDS religion allows for this elevation of man in part because its view of the great high God and the other heavenly co-rulers differs meaningfully from the concept of God that was developed through Church councils and inherited by most Protestants. Mormons are not Trinitarians, for instance.

Lott draws plenty of interesting parallels, but stops short of believing that Alan Moore, the writer of the Watchmen graphic novel, actually intended for Dr. Manhattan to have features in common with the Mormon idea of God. But in the unlikely event that this was Moore's intention, it would hardly be the first time that the Church of Latter Day Saints inspired a work of science-fiction.