You have written a paper that supports the idea that some crop circles are not man-made because these crop circles are too complicated to have been made by humans. Do we really have good reason to think that any crop circles actually are too complicated to have been made by humans? Consider the following questions.
1. What is the rule for determining whether or no something is too complicated to have been made by humans?
2. Is it really impossible for a well-trained group of humans, working together, to produce designs as complicated as any cropcircle in a single night? (If you think not, check out Circlemakers.)
3. In the case of some particular alleged anomalous feature, can we be sure that it actually exists? For instance, it is often claimed that corn stalks in crop circles exhibit features, such as strange bends and crystallization, but has anybody produced a picture of this?
4. It is said that in genuine circles the wheat stalks bend, but do not break, and continue to grow. Is this really an anomaly? Wheat, the circlemaker's crop of choice, is a form of grass. Find a long stalk of grass and bend it. Does it break when bent by human hand? Does it stop growing when bent?
Write a paper in which you discuss the complexity issue and come to conclusion as to whether complexity really supports the claim that some crop circles are not man-made.
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