XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: nospam@here.thanks   
      
   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.   
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)