Quote:
Originally Posted by Dion
I always thought theory and specualtion were one and the same.
FWIW if i had told you i have a huge interest in UFO's that date back to the time i was a child it might have explained better why i search and read all stuff pertaining to the mysterious and the unknown.
|
Absolutely not!
Theory is based upon observations and uses background knowledge to derive what is a likely explination.
Speculation is uninformed and based on opinion or a lack of knowledge.
A theory for how crop circles is made would be as follows:
Crop circles are all made by people.
It's based on the facts at had, namely that it has been demonstarted and proven in the vast majority of cases that crop circles are made by man, so it's not a stretch to theorize that the rest are created in the same way.
Speculation on the origin of crop circles, would be to say something like this:
"Some crop circles are created by aliens, or bigfoot, or magnetic eddies"
There is no evidence for this, and no logical reason for someone to conclude this, and untill some sort of data to support this becomes available, then it is pure speculation.
Edit: Oops, didn't realize Photon beat me to it.