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You have to remember that this was 200 years ago they didn't have google or edge or a walamrt

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because of the time period it was not a bad thought to think

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because of the time period it was not a bad thought to think

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Peter was the first to see that so really he and the people really didn't know where it came so peter probably came up and everyone believed him.

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This idea would be considered stupid as'f & unreasonable in today's world because of all the research we have, but 200 years ago, its might have been reasonable to think this because there wasn't nearly as much research performed and studied about animals. So Peter isn't stupid, the world just hasn't made any new discoveries that we know are true today.

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i think that no one really new where the rates were coming from so the just believed what they heard .

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It was probably the only information he and others had to go on  during that time period and it was the simplest thing to believe.

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I believe that  Peter thought this way because no one had a complete understanding of where and how rats got on top of a building. It was the only logical explanation at that time. Now, having understood the problem, this theory is humorous to most because of how obvious the answer is to the knowing.

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I think that Peter had this idea because there was no other proof at that time to show that he or anyone else was wrong. They also didn't see the rats come into the house.
I think that this idea is illogical because it is proven that rats come from other rats, and that they don't come from straw. They didn't take the time to observe the rats to see if they really did just come from the straw, instead they guessed and that guess was wrong.

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I think Peter would think this way because no one ever stood around the watch the rats enter the house.

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Peter accepted this because that's what everyone else believed

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Because Everyone thought that that actually happened.

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Back then not a lot of people had good knowledge.

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Peter has this idea because he didn't have any other proof of anything else.

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Though this idea is preposterous, at the time, nobody had tested it or tried to discover another way for this to occur. They didn't know any better.

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his idea is ridiculous but they had no proof of where the rats came from so they just thought "Hey there is straw right here and the rats are right here so maybe they came from the straw." then rats showed up on straw roofs a lot so they believed rats came from straw.

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well you would think they would know how things are made if they had kids or something like it takes two of a animal or person or something to make more, they don't just apear or change from object.

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He didnt want to be judged

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I think the idea that straw turning into mice is strange because they must have known that straw was a plant, and they hadn't seen plants turning into animals. Peter might have been smart, but he didn't have any proof that the straw actually turned into mice.

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they didn't know or have proof to tell how they actually got there so they believed whatever came to mind