[Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)
- From: satish.c7@xxxxxxxxx (Satish Chandra)
- Date: Sun Oct 26 12:33:08 2008
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:04 AM, ?????????? <citizenofgnu@xxxxxxxxx> 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
<swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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Regards,
Satish
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