I have practised palmistry, numerology and graphology, should it be treated as science?

Question

Many of my predictions came absolutely true even to my astonishment. But I still feel that predicting future involves more of intuition than anything else. However these can help a person psychologically. I feel predicting bad events like illness, accidents etc. is not right as it can demoralise the person and in any case you can not be hundred percent sure that prediction will come true. However predicting good things will not harm anybody even if they do not come true.

Answer 1

Palmistry, numerology, and graphology are NOT sciences. They are historical hold-overs from the dark-ages that modern folks just can't abandon. Science requires that there be something you can measure, before and after. There must be a quantifiable effect directly connected to a previous quantifiable cause. The action you're examining must CAUSE an effect you can measure. The ancient pseudo-sciences pervert the scientific method because there's never an explaination for WHY the cause creates the effect. Why, for example, does the astrological position of celestial bodies supposedly effect the personality of a person born at a particular time? An ancient astrologer could never answer that question. A modern physicist knows (with mathematical certainty) that the gravity created by the mass of an attending obstetrician is many, many times greater than the gravitational effects of all the celestial bodies combined (excepting Earth itself). The only other macroscopic force in the universe is electromagnetism, which wasn't even defined by science until 1865 -- so the ancients didn't consider electromagnetism as part of astrology. We can thus conclude that astrology is a fraud because it has no quantifiable basis in physical reality.

I didn't attack palmistry, numerology, and graphology because I imagine you're pretty close-minded about them. Nevertheless, none of those pseudo-sciences have a physical cause for the effects they purport to measure. Thus, they are NOT science!

Answer 2

First on Palmistry: Its a science, because its origin comes from the study of the nerves of the human body, which guide the actions a person. Every single nerve in the human body has a connection to the palm. Take the case of techniques like accupressure, which also work on the same principle. Graphology has similar origins. Numerology is very common for a set of people. The results are similiar, because the numbers total up to a few options, but no two palms are the same, nor are two writings the same.

Answer 3

There are several methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, palms or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

I predict the sun will rise tomorrow and the laws of physics will still exist. You stated an interesting fact about your science in the last 7 words of your question.

Answer 4

No, definitely not. Most predictions made are so general that a lot of the time the predictor can claim he is right. And even though they are so generic they are usually so wrong. There is no evidence that any of these practices are true, so why should they be a science? I can make up my own version of any of them and as likely be as accurate as anyone elses.

Answer 5

Please try to understand what science really is. And if it makes any sense, Newton's third law states "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" and not "Every action MAY or MAYNOT have an equal and opposite reaction"

Science is applicable to everyone, everywhere, everytime!

Answer 6

Just about everything is science.

However, we call science only that we understand and not what we cant.

Answer 7

These are not sciences. They are pseudosciences, just like astrology, ID, etc.

Answer 8

I think that you have a misconception about what "science" is.

Answer 9

of course,these are grouped in astrological field of science..