XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism
XPost: sci.skeptic
From: nospam@here.thanks
On 27/02/2015 04:04, mur wrote:
> 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.
>
So what's different about the ones which you think were made by aliens?
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