christmas surprises

One of the problems with posting presents overseas is that the details required on the customs forms ruin most of the surprise. Not quite all, though. For instance, I was pleasantly surprised that the "chocolate and biscuits" turned out to be in a cute tin that plays "O Christmas Tree". It's not the fault of customs forms, just me forgetting if I'd ordered from amazon or not, but I wasn't so pleasantly surprised by the book titled "Gods, Genes and Consciousness". It sounds like an interesting title, right? I thought it would be a cool science book, especially since my dad has shown surprisingly good taste in books lately. Here's the description, though:

• A Harvard-trained independent scholar looks at the numerous ways Advanced Beings--Von Ward's term for angels and extraterrestrials--have been influencing human history since the dawn of time. Using biblicial and other ancient sources, along with modern scientific and achaelogical findings, he unearths new information about AB's contributions to humanity including the roots of language, technology, math, science, and more. "Gods, Genes, and Consciousness" ties this new historical information to the present day by revealing the ways in which our cultural memories of ABs as well as records of AB involvement have been systematically suppressed in order for government and church officials to control the population. This provocative book culminates with a stirring call for the U.S. government to stop the cover-up and tell the truth about AB involvement.

There are a number of possible reasons why my dad chose this book for me, the best of which is that he didn't read anything but the title, either. Unfortunately, that's probably the least likely. I was already getting a little uncomfortable about him embracing his wife's new agey beliefs about alternative medicine and it was annoying when they tried to claim I ought to be using more holistic methods in my research, but I'll be seriously freaked out if he actually believes that every religious belief is a true story of aliens who came to Earth and bred with humans. I have to call him now and how am I supposed to thank him for this? Do I actually have to read it? Am I just being closed-minded by being repulsed? Sure, it's possible that it's all true, but it's also possible that Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is true.