Can Astrology predict the future
Jawaharlal Nehru.
Not being an expert in astrology, I cannot say whether astrology itself has a horoscope (assuming that someone knows the precise moment it was born) and what it foretells about its academic future!
Some arguments in favour are: If astrology is not a science, so what? Sciences are not the only subjects to be taught in universities. Politics, we all know, is far from being a science. Yet it is not only taught but it is taught as political science!
I had asked asked this question to various persons from difrent professions. Here I am quoting some of reply:
"Of course. Everybody does it all the time. When you're about to leave your house and notice the dark clouds and grab your umbrella before you leave, that's what you've done. It can be subtler things too - you might be driving and get the feeling that the car in front of you is about to turn, based on the way the driver looks to one side or slows down a little or shifts a tiny bit to one side. We're often not aware of these tiny signals so it might seem uncanny, but we are, ultimately, predicting the future, even if it's not in a supernatural way. "
"Yes and no. We can predict a lot of things, but when we do it is a matter of calculating probabilities on the basis of past experience, rather than of having the 'actual' future affecting what is predicted.
I can predict that tomorrow the sun will rise. The prediction is based on some 21 thousand days of personal experience plus a great many more days of historical reports. And then there is fossil evidence of the daylight cycle strething back into prehistory."
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