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[quote=CTD] It plays on people's aversion to astrology, which we're told has been debunked by science. If astrology were immune to scientific inquiry, science would be powerless to debunk it. The conclusion that astrology can be investigated scientifically is unavoidable. The very people who present this argument claim it's already been done. The argument logically defeats itself, but oh! The emotional pull... it's just so irresistible ...someone help me! Please quote a scientist who said that astrology cannot be scientifically investigated? That's my point exactly! You criticize the position that astrology is subject to scientific investigation, yet you dare not come out and say it isn't. The argument is based upon scaring people with the bug-a-boo word "astrology". It is perfectly correct to say science can investigate astrology, so why mock someone for saying so? It's a cheap knock-off of agrumentum ad Hitlerum. Any definition of 'science' which excludes investigation of astrology must be defective - not the other way around.
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
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