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One direct similarity in approach between Vox's takedown of TENS and your work in Face on Mars was the number crunching you did on the Egyptian pyramids in chapter one, or early in the book.

When you literally "did the math" on the construction of the pyramids -- number of stones, scientists' proposed timeline (lol), etc. -- that was enough to immediately produce a paradigm shift in my own thinking. And that was without even taking into account the sheer _complexity_ of design and engineering of those structures, or of anything that came in later chapters.

Separately, Have you ever written up anything about your understanding of the relationship between what you discovered in Face On Mars and the truths of Christianity? Clearly, your ultimate conclusion is: "It doesn't change anything as far as our path to salvation." But I am curious as to if and how you interpret and fit in the extra-terrestrial beings within the orthodox Catholic understanding of God, creation, Christ's incarnation among specifically Earth-bound mankind, man's special role in God's eyes, etc.

For instance, are the ETs to be understood as "demons", "angels", some other group of species within ordinary creation? (I put demons and angels in scare quotes simply because it would sort of change our understanding of what those categories refer to or how they manifest in the world. And speaking of connections with Vox's work, in his debate with an atheist maybe ten years ago that was published as "On the Existence of the Gods" (plural), Vox made the point that, for all intents and purposes, any superior (more powerful, more effective, etc.) being can fit the definition of (lowercase g) gods, which was all he set out to prove in that debate.)

Anyway, I would be interested in learning what you see as any meaningful implications about the one (FOM) for the other (Christianity). I read Face on Mars several years ago, and I think there may have been a chapter towards the end of the revised edition that did some of that work but I will have to revisit it and in any case I recall feeling that it did not fully do what I am asking about here. Thank you!

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