do u think astrology is a science?How can the movement of planets affect the human life?should i believe it?

Answer 1

Astrology is a load of hoarse manure. What in all of blazes would cause the motions of the planets to affect your life? Nothing, that's what. Astrology started as a protoscience. The ancients saw the motions of the planets and stars and thought maybe they could predict the future with them. Nowadays we know planets are rocks or balls of gas floating around in space and not the gods of olympus looking down upon us. Astrology is just a scam to empty your wallet of cash.

Answer 2

Let's just use common sense. Astrology is based on the idea that the stars, specifically the planets and their position in the sky have a major impact on events that happen on earth. The claim is that the exact position of the stars and planets on the day of your birth determines things that will happen to you the rest of your life.

The main problem with this thinking is that the planets are simply large rocks or spheres of gas orbiting the sun. The only affect they can have on any person on earth is due to gravity but they are so far away that the monitor you are reading this on has a stronger gravitational pull on you than any planet or star in the sky.

Astrology sounds plausible because it pre-dates science. Much like many religious books the most intriguing part of astrology is the language and symbolism used because it was passed down for thousands of years as oral tradition. The stories and ideas are almost magical sounding but in the end they are based on fantasy and superstition.

To see another flaw in astrology just look at the situation this past year regarding Pluto. In the last few years dozens of small planets roughly the size of Pluto have been found in the solar system causing scientists to either accept dozens of new planets or omit Pluto from the list. They chose the latter but either way it throws a major curve ball to astrology. Pluto was said to have a major influence in astrology and now they are left with inaccurate charts.

This is not the first time this happened. For a short while the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt was considered a planet only to be discarded later when we learned how small it was compared to the others. And if they instead kept Pluto as a planet, astrologers would have had to modify their charts to include the dozens of other Pluto size objects.

Lastly, it isn't science because it doesn't make accurate predictions. If you use Newton’s laws of motion to describe something like the trajectory and velocity of a baseball, every person on earth given the same parameters (who knows how to do the equations) will get the EXACT same answer. There is no guesswork or interpretation. In astrology, on the same day for the same horoscope almost every column you read will have a different interpretation of the stars. That's not science, that's religion.

As to whether or not you should believe it that's up to you. One of the best arguments against astrology is made by Carl Sagan in his book "Cosmos" in the chapter "Harmony of Worlds." I can't tell you what you should or should not think, I can only recommend that you seek as much information as possible and make an informed decision.

Just because something sounds magical and you want to believe it doesn't mean it's true.

Although, since you feel you even have to ask the question shows you already know the answer. You seem to recognize that there is something wrong with believing the planets have any affect on us now that we've seen them and know what they really are.

Answer 3

Astrology is not a science because it doesn't use the methods of science. It uses ancient lore based on mythology. It is based on a view of the universe that is now discredited (namely that the earth is the center and the sun, moon, planets, and starts all revolve around it.)

The biggest case against astrology is found in the horoscopes found in newspapers. If you read the horoscopes written by different astrologers for a given day they are not the same. Which one are you going to believe?

Astrology got going in ancient times when priest-astronomers discovered that there were predictable patterns in the motions of sky objects. They could in fact predict when the seasons would begin and end, where the planets would be in the sky, etc. This was pretty impressive and people got to thinking that if they can predict those things maybe they can also predict the future of people. This gave the priest-astronomers a lot of power but they had to be sure that wouldn't be wrong too often so they developed ways of expressing their predictions and advice that had more than one interpretation. On the other hand people who believe in the astrologer's advice often succeed or fail in their efforts for psychological reasons that have nothing to do with the motions of the planets and everything to do with the encouraging or discouraging words of the astrologer.

Answer 4

No, there's absolutely no scientific basis for astrology. Now that Pluto's been demoted from being a planet to merely a dwarf planet, does that mean that all past astrological readings in which Pluto the planet played a role were wrong?

Answer 5

No - there's nothing remotely scientific about astrology. It's a belief system that's a long way past its sell by date.

Answer 6

There is definitely something to it. My girlfriend & I were born three days apart (different years) and she was raised on a tiny island in Indonesia and grew up under an entirely different set of circumstances (culture, money, education, etc.). We are so much alike it is uncanny.

Answer 7

FOR SOME REASON WOMEN BELIEVE THIS 4 TO 1 OVER MEN-----I THINK MOST OF IT IS DISTORTED , & HAPLESSLY CONTRIVED..THE SAME RATIO HOLDS TRUE FOR SOAP OPERAS...............

Answer 8

No, they don't, and no.