What is the relationship between Science and Astrology?

Question

Hey i need to know the relationship between science and astrology for my General studies project!
I am taking up how science and astrology go against each other and how they go together.
Please help me!
give me pictures give me written data
Thank you!

Answer 1

Science shows that astrology is nonsense.



Here is a meta-horoscope created by combining 22,000 star sign predictions.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/horoscoped/



Notice how all the different star signs are nearly identical and vague.



Also, the alignment between Earth and the star constellations has changed since the ideas of astrology were originally made up, so your 'sign' is no longer the one it should be.



I would recommend checking out Phil Plait's blog as he often talks about this topic, the following is from his site:



"...the signs of the zodiac have shifted since they were first invented thousands of years ago. This is true, because the Earth’s axis wobbles over time, which has the effect of shifting the positions of the zodiacal constellations in the sky, or, more accurately, the time of the year the Sun passes through them. So it used to be that if you were born on March 22, you were an Aries… if you went by the original timing of when the Sun was in Aries. But now, millennia later, the Sun is actually in Pisces on that date. And it won’t be much longer before it’s in Aquarius in late March"

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/01/13/astrological-sign-of-the-times/

Answer 2

I have always approached both objectively, I think. Religion came first in my life because of family. At an early age, I began to rebel against organized religion. I was studying science in school and I love reading anything to do with science or math. I questioned some of the religious teachings, but mostly because I was skeptical and just needed to hear more detailed answers. Astrology came about later. At first, it was simply horoscopes and I thought they seemed a lot like the Sunday School lessons we were expected to accept on face value. One day, a friend loaned me a book on a more detailed study of astrology. I was hooked on studying it from the start, and astrology continues to fascinate me. So astrology is another subject that I like to study, and so are the many different religions. I will say that I do not believe in any study or religion, but I do know that believe in God. This belief has come through much personal experience.

Answer 3

There is a strong correlation between people observing the natural phenomenon around them and creating hypotheses of what that may mean and science. I would say astrology was a very early form of science being created. Just because someone talks about the weather, that doesn't make them a meteorologist and just because someone knows their sun sign they may not be an an authority. The development of astrology in different cultures is very interesting, checkout this article to learn more. http://nayleon.com/astrological-compatibility-the-big-picture/

Answer 4

Astrology was all there was for a long time in human culture. Before the arrival of telescopes etc, the nature of the things that appeared in the sky were rather mysterious. However, the movements of the bodies in the sky seemed to follow predictable cycles. People are always looking for ways to predict the future, and it became popular to attempt to correlate the cycles of the objects in the sky with events in our lives, and build a discipline around that to try and create useful predictions about it. The human penchant for confirmation bias allowed this to continue and even flourish, despite the fact that it really wasn't at all effective.



As the tools became available to enable true scientific study of the sky, we began to gain useful, new information about what was really going on up there. Astronomy soon replaced astrology as the primary means of understanding what all that stuff was and what it was doing. However, astrology has certainly failed to die a proper death. It still speaks to the desire of people to feel connected to the rest of our universe and to be able to predict and know things about the future and how to behave. The tentative cultural acceptance of it as a maybe-legitimate thing, the continued penchant for confirmation bias, and the fact that people these days tend to be poorly educated in critical thinking ability allows it to survive and thrive to some degree.



There are astrologers out there that seek to surround their practice in the trappings of science to attempt to gain additional legitimacy, but at this point it is well accepted among the scientific community that astrology is at best pseudoscience, and typically just a bunch of bunk. As far as I am concerned, astrology has no value except as a cultural and anthropological curiosity.







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http://www.planetos.info/sciast1.html

Answer 5

"how they go together"



They don't, except when an astronomer/astrophysicist/anyone who isn't an idiot gets called in to periodically debunk the astrological horseshit, by for example showing that all of the astrological predictions are one star-sign out of sync with what they are claiming they are due to the Earth's precession about it's axis :P



This doesn't affect astrological readings because they offer no specifics about an individual, only generic language such as "in the next 6 months you will face a challenge" ... the only people who don't face at least one challenge within that time frame are dead ._.

Answer 6

There is no relationship. Science proves astrology to be nonsense. The positions of the stars have no bearing on your life, regardless of whether it is the position of the stars now or the position of the starts when you were born.

Answer 7

Science shows that anyone believing in astrology is deluding themselves. Not only did it reveal that those people had miscalculated the astrological signs, but when that was pointed out to them, they were angry, rather than taking steps to correct their error, revealing that they don't actually care whether or not their beliefs are true.

Answer 8

Science involves research and finding the answer.



Astrology involved searching for ways to create answers, regardless of truth.

Answer 9

There isn't any, science is real and astrology is like religion, fake.

Answer 10

One is based on sound reasoning, whereas the other uses specious reasoning.

Answer 11

its the same relationship as the one between bullshit and fact

Answer 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3hzpxMcldQ

This might be of help...



Also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy

Answer 13

None.

Answer 14

Please do your own homework.



Reference material here:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html