You have written a paper that supports the idea that crop circles are a natural phenomenon. Does the available evidence really support the idea that crop circles are a natural phenomenon? Please answer the following questions as you develop your answer.
1. Can you explain a physical process that could cause the kinds of patterns that occur in crop circles? Is there a way to do it by light? Could it be done by heat? Could sound have this effect? Whatever mechanisms you can think of must be consistent with known physics. If you think that there is such a process, you will be able to explain exactly how it happens. If you can't give an explanation that is consistent with physics, then you really don't know of such an explanation.
2. If you came up with a physical process that could cause crop circles, can you come up with an explanation of how such a concentration of light, heat or sound could happen naturally? (If you can't, then it probably can't happen naturally.)
3. Can you explain why your putative natural cause has radically different effects from those causes that are known to affect crops? For instance, heavy rains are known to beat down crops, and windstorms can blow crops over, but neither cause ever leaves the crops in a pattern that is even remotely like the patterns found in crop circles.
4. Can you explain why your putative natural cause has a different effect every time it occurs?
5. Can you explain why your putative natural cause has never been reported by science?
6. Can you explain why your putative natural cause did not occur in the 20th century before 1978?
Once you have fully considered all of the above questions, come to an overall conclusion about the probability of a natural origin for crop circles. Write a paper in which your first paragraph gives this conclusion and explains how you came to it. Then follow that with six more paragraphs in which you discuss each of the above questions in detail.
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