XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
      
   On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:15:51 +0000, Steve O  wrote:   
      
   >Whatever the hell nonsense you want to make up about crop circles,   
   >describing them as an 'unexplainable phenomenon"- then you need to go   
   >back to when the first crop circles started appearing.   
   >I'm old enough to remember the first ones which appeared.   
      
       You're old enough to remember 1678?   
      
   >Back then, they were associated with UFO sightings, and were simple   
   >circles which were supposed to indicate the "landing marks' of said UFO's.   
   >The idea, or the joke was supposed to be that the round marks supported   
   >the UFo sightings as "physical evidence ' of such sightings, or as was   
   >known at the time, a 'close encounter of the second kind" - ie- physical   
   >evidence of a visitation.   
   >The idea of the circles carrying messages didn't appear until much later   
   >as the crop circles became more evolved and intricate.   
   >This 'evolution' of crop circles is a good indication of what they   
   >actually are... simple patterns of flattened what which became more   
   >complicated over time as people got better at making them.   
   >The original meaning appears to have been lost, as the woo- woo crowd   
   >fell over themselves to attribute amazing and mystical properties to   
   >what is essentially a flattened piece of grass.   
      
       That may be all any of them are. But there's something I consider which you   
   don't, and that's that it might not be all there is to any of them. I have no   
   doubt that humans make some of them, and probably the vast majority of them.   
   But   
   they might not have made every one of them and so far I don't have good reason   
   to try putting faith in the idea that they did.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)