Reply #111: Your tenseness is wrong [View All]

[omega minimo]

"Astrology was the predecessor of astronomy."

Foundation, predecessor, at least we've made some headway here.

"Astronomy would still exist if astrology had never existed, but its history (and a few of its terms) would be different."

Well if scientists want to assert that hypothesis, all right, but that's not how it DID happen. Can't change past tense. :think:

"People are capable of starting new sciences without a superstitious predecessor."

Okay, except they DIDN'T in this case and the "superstition" was the science of the time as it developed fundamentals for what became astronomy.

"No-one in astronomy starts by learning anything about astrology. It's not the foundation now."

It is and will always be the historic foundation, which is all I said.

You seem to be aware of that fact.

"Astrology is the foundation for astronomy, to which it owes its existence, that is our history, deal with it."



And if we live in a fact based world of honest discernment, there are surely some people interested in any and/or all disciplines associated with the magnificence of the "heavens." Not everyone needs a rigid worldview exclusive of the interconnectedness that science has proven. Not everyone needs to reject interdisciplinary ideas.