Reply #48: Astrologers can, if they wish, bring a huge amount of technical expertise... [View All]

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...to bear derived from scientific astronomy. No degree of precision in the calculation of planetary orbits, however, no amount of working in newly discovered moons of Saturn or dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Pluto, will save astrology from being bunk.

To the extent that Biblical scholars are merely trying to better understand the culture and language of those who wrote the Bible, I have no argument with that endeavor. What I consider an unfounded premise, however, is that just because something is in the Bible, it must be wise or even divine. When you start with that premised, and a Biblical passage doesn't seem to you to be wise or divine, then the problem is becomes your problem, for not yet having discovered the supposedly best translation of some bit of ancient Greek or Aramaic, for taking something literally when you supposedly should take it figuratively, or vice versa.