On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:04 AM, தியாகராஜன் <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all counts , Astrology is a science.
It was a science. When it was developed it was the most accurate way of predicting paths of celestial objects. But science does not stay static. As new data comes up, theories are updated or discarded . Astrology considers only those objects which are visible to the naked eye. There is no mention of planets outside Saturn, the asteroid belt, the sizeable moons of Jupiter and Saturn and so on. Today astrology is an obsolete model. On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct. Or may be our science is not advanced enough to define astrology. > The way it can't define mind and soul. And there are something you can't > prove. No matter what. Throughout history we've had enough examples of something being considered above understanding and yet human ingenuity eventually grokked it. Today's mystery is tomorrow's science. > As Sagan said : "Lack of evidence is not the evidence of lack." The exact quote is "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Sagan used it in his book The Demon Haunted World as an example of how some claims are not falsifiable and hence are assumed as truth. He did not mean that even if something lacks evidence, it can be true. -- Regards, Satish
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