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Originally Posted by overlord
Well in all fairness I believe it is true to say that astrology can be described as `mystic', certainly. It has many unknown variables associated which prevent it from ever being described as an exact science...
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... and those 'many unknown variables' also result in its unverifiability .. which precludes it from being used in the same sentence as 'Science'.
It is in fact, also, this particular aspect, which precisely defines it as a pseudoscience !
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Originally Posted by overlord
kind of like trying to say that humans are responsible for MOST global warming. I mean IF humans are making all the species go extinct, it follows that humans are the MAJOR vector for changing the planet and therefore the MOST LIKELY cause of the said warming. That's not an exact science either...
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I'll say ! ... the 'logic' of your argument is more like: "a total crock" !
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Originally Posted by overlord
and the reason is there is too many variables for one human to contemplate. Just because something is not as exact as a mathematical equation, (i'd like to see something in the universe which is  ) does not necessarily mean something should be dismissed as `rubbish'. That work riles me up. It irks me. |
Feel free to be irked ! ... The real universe doesn't care !
Astrology is rubbish because it is not objective (in any sense), internally consistent, nor is it independently verifiable ... and these aspects are openly admitted by most Astrologers !... And the even more bizarre thing, is that somehow, Astrology followers seem to glorify these very aspects which are the very ones which exclude it from ever being comparable with 'Science' in the first place !
Cheers
It may surprise you to know that statistics is used in science? So if something is right 70% of the time... it isn't? Statistics is used in psychology and biology very frequently. Both have an immense number of variables, which in your words make them `psedosciences'. 
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA! Have you ever been to university? Your argument is pure crap! I'm sorry to have to tell this to you since you seem very self-important! 
