Thread: Crop Circles
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Old 08-20-2008, 10:35 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by MJK View Post
I am a firm believer that something 'special' is the cause of them but I don't think anyone knows for sure how the heck they are made. Anyone who thinks they are ALL made by people during the night are crazy. Some of the intricate ones would be impossible to create by a human IMO.

There are many crop circles that have been discovered that use very precise math.
So humans don't know how to use precise math?

Your statement is an argument from personal incredulity; you don't know how they could be created so you decide that they're not created by humans. That's a logical fallacy.

I've never seen a crop circle that doesn't look like something that could easily be drawn up in Matlab with some knowledge of math and a bit of time.

Show me a crop circle that actually has NEW math in it, or demonstrates knowledge that we didn't have before the crop circle, then I'll be impressed.

I'll recommend to you what I always recommend to others, read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and then come back and look at the whole crop circle thing.
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