Tell me something, with NASA now stating that mars "may have been warm and wet". ----> MAY. <----IF that is discovered to be a correct conclusion...
WHAT would be so illogical about intelligent beings having lived on mars LONG AGO and having remnants of their homes/cities/dwellings discovered by US?
Absolutely nothing illogical about that whatsoever. Although the data seems to indicate to me that Mars if indeed it ever was warm and wet (which is still a very tentative conclusion) was not that way for long enough for an intelligent civilization to evolve. Nonetheless, we don't know that time-scale for life to develop/civilize.
But I want evidence of this race.
This would definitely be more convincing than a mountain which happens to look like a face. I have a picture of a crater on Venus here which looks like a face too. I'd scan it if I had a scanner [it's the multiple crater Lillian in the Guinevere region of Venus (25.6N, 336.0)]. It looks like a big ghostly face.
An intelligent race, and this is the best evidence for it? When we've been to the surface of the moon 3 times and mapped the surface in great detail?
The "face" hardly counts for this kind of rationalistic approach anyway. Unless these creatures (1) could see into the future to know what our faces look like (2) happened to evolve to look very much like us or (3) are actually our descendents who moved to earth when Mars got to cold and subsequently descended into barbarism. The last one would make a good Sci-Fi story (probably already has).
The illogical part of all this is the contention that the scientific community as a whole is collectively engaged in a massive cover-up of the evidence.