Originally Posted by ReverendTap
Third, the preponderance of the "look around you, their symbols are everywhere" argument belies a lack of real evidence in the theory. The symbols involved are nearly always simple ones: triangles, stars, certain numbers, and so on. These symbols, by dint of their very simplicity and the ease with which they can be recognized, will be found pretty much everywhere, even lacking human involvement; numbers will almost always be found in the Fibonacci Sequence. This approach also ignores the fundamental fact that, looking for such "evidence," one is bound to see it everywhere, even when it requires complex alterations of the object or image in question to "bring it out" to a casual observer.