Reasoning Logic and How to Argue
events, can be attributed to false causes. One example is the crop circle phenomenon. Crop circles apparently “appear mysteriously overnight in farmers’ fields,” (Radford, 2017). The majority of crop circles were occurring in England, but there have been reports of crop circles elsewhere. Crop circles have been reported for centuries, and have been attributed to aliens. Another presumed cause of the crop circles is the presence of special energy vortexes or patterns known as “ley lines,” which direct wind patterns in a way that creates the crop circles (Irving & Brookesmith, 2009). These are inadequate explanations for several reasons. One is that actually these… Continue Reading...

