Originally posted by MarkusTay
The human is composed of three elemants (mystical number there) and they are: Body, Mind, and Soul. Whether you are a scientist or study mysticism, it is a given fact EVERYTHING in the universe affects everything else on a subtle sub-atomic level.
Sorry Markus, but you\'re wrong on that, the only \'universal\' force is gravity, the electromagnetic and strong & weak nuclear forces act on charged particles, and sub-atomic particles respectively. Only gravity acts on all matter, irrespective of type and at the sub-atomic level, gravity is so weak as to be virtually ignored.
We know that all celestial bodies (and everything else for that matter) produces an enormous gravitational field. So strong, in fact, that it can even bend light.
Gravity is an extremely weak force, it\'s only around truly massive bodies that the effect is observeable. Whilst it\'s true that human beings generate gravitational forces, they are so small as to be immeasureable. Bending light is no great trick, the spectacles that I\'m wearing right now, bend light as do prisms, fibre optic cables, the Earth\'s atmosphere and water.
Therefore, everything affects us physically (The Body).
Doubtful, otherwise we\'d be taller when the moon was directly overhead.
Is it such a great leap to think that these things also affect us mentally and spiritually? Hundreds of trillions of things in the cosmos all subtley pulling at us all the time.
You\'re presuming that there is a \'spiritual\' aspect to humanity, which is debateable in itself. As for the celestial objects \'pulling at us\', the only heavenly bodies to exert a measureable effect on us are the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and, to a tiny extent, Venus. The rest of the planets make no difference to our orbit, the force of gravity varies with the sum of the masses and inversely with the square of the distance. So the force decays exponentially as they are moved apart.
Now, if the \'human\' is composed of three elements, then the human persona is determined by three things: Genetics, Upbringing, AND TIME OF BIRTH. But the time of Birth... the EXACT moment you were born... affects you spiritually. All those cosmic forces focusing down on one tiny human being, all pushing and pulling at the human soul like so much silly-putty.
This is the part there\'s no evidence for, no-one has ever provided a convincing argument for the time and place of birth determining a person\'s characteristics. Vague references to celestial bodies, gravity and quantum physics just don\'t cut it as a scientific explanation.
In order to be a true science, astrology has to be able to make predictions from a hypothesis and then test those predictions in experiments, if that can\'t be done then it isn\'t a science, it\'s a belief system. This is where astrology appears to fall down, it provides no testable theories and therefore cannot be falsified and as such, cannot be regarded as a science.
If we were to combine the Genome Project with Physchological profiling AND Astrology we could probably determine EXACTLY what everyone was going to do and say during the course of their entire lives...
Probably not, if the effects at a quantum level are taken into account (as you claim they must be) then Heisenberg\'s Uncertainty Principle comes into play and as such, no exact prediction of the outcome of any event can be made.
In fact, I\'m working on that right now...
Now that I\'d be interested in
That got a bit heavy didn\'t it? I\'m not getting at you Markus, but it bugs me when people use incorrect scientific assertions to prop up un-scientific theories. There may be something to astrology, it\'s certainly possible, maybe in the future new evidence will come to light which will prove the theory, but at this point in time, none of our existing physical laws support it.
Oh, in case you hadn\'t guessed yet, I don\'t believe in astrology
Rab.
