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But, more realistically, the major problem which the Cydonia findings presents to the people in these agencies is one of basic scientific paradigms. Nobody could build all of this stuff on this kind of a megalithic scale with space-suits on; the planet has to be habitable for Cydonia to get built. This is a huge problem, in that it would require a totally different basic theory of the history of our solar system from the one which the scientists have.

That's great, Ted, but the formation of the solar system (and the entire universe) is a matter independant of evolution.

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That's great, Ted, but the formation of the solar system (and the entire universe) is a matter independant of evolution.

Not really, particularly in this case. It's the basic evolutionist requirement for millions and billions of years which is the problem. The first thing which scientists would normally do would be to try to claim that Mars was somehow habitable 10 or 200 million years ago ( per their instinct wrt evolution) and that might be workable (to them at least) IF the images those probes were bringing back were those of total aliens with eight eyes, horns, and tails. Nonetheless, the images we see are definitely human so that they'd be trying to claim that monkeys got to Mars 10 million years ago and evolved into humans, and that's too much even for them.

Evolution is part of a larger doctrine called uniformity or uniiformitarianism, which posits that changes in biological and geological forms take place slowly over vast expanses of time via processes which we observe now, and that doctrine clearly cannot coexist with the notion of finding a destroyed human civilization on Mars, or 2100' below the waves off Cuba either, for that matter.