XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
      
   On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:26:36 +0000, Steve O  wrote:   
   .   
   >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?   
      
       There aren't any specific ones I believe were.   
      
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