So in fairness- the phrase “no body knows for sure how it happened” sounds really mysterious but if you have ever swore you locked the door and it wasn’t locked or any such silly thing- you know that no body knowing for sure what happened is an almost everyday occurrence.
In science in general- but especially when we study ancient history of things, and more so when we study things that aren’t documented like geological processes or extinct species etc- scientists never know “for sure” how it happened. They just have theories, evidence, and probabilities.
No body knows for sure how some random “ordinary” rock ended up where it is either. We just have a pretty good idea of the way or a few most likely ways it happened.
So there are several leading theories that have reasonable probability of being correct on how this formation came to be. At present evidence does not support the formation being man made and there isn’t any of the leading theories that has a particularly strong..
.. advantage over the others- though one or two tend to be most favored.
But don’t let my “fun facts” take away your fun. We don’t know how it happened, so you are free to come up with or believe whatever best suits you. Regardless of the phrasing or how it occurred- it is still a striking and rare occurrence in nature. Even if we go to the leading theories it’s no less amazing that it happened at all let alone that the formation has endured through ancient times to today. So however you want to explain or think about it- it’s still amazing. The odds of such a precise edge, the odds the rocks would happen to be so well balanced as to keep from tumbling off their perches, the odds that through wind and all manner of erosion and other factors that it would still be around and still look so precise- it’s all still very uncommon.
In science in general- but especially when we study ancient history of things, and more so when we study things that aren’t documented like geological processes or extinct species etc- scientists never know “for sure” how it happened. They just have theories, evidence, and probabilities.
No body knows for sure how some random “ordinary” rock ended up where it is either. We just have a pretty good idea of the way or a few most likely ways it happened.
So there are several leading theories that have reasonable probability of being correct on how this formation came to be. At present evidence does not support the formation being man made and there isn’t any of the leading theories that has a particularly strong..
But don’t let my “fun facts” take away your fun. We don’t know how it happened, so you are free to come up with or believe whatever best suits you. Regardless of the phrasing or how it occurred- it is still a striking and rare occurrence in nature. Even if we go to the leading theories it’s no less amazing that it happened at all let alone that the formation has endured through ancient times to today. So however you want to explain or think about it- it’s still amazing. The odds of such a precise edge, the odds the rocks would happen to be so well balanced as to keep from tumbling off their perches, the odds that through wind and all manner of erosion and other factors that it would still be around and still look so precise- it’s all still very uncommon.