Astrology is Untrue

For something to be considered true, and even more simply, for something to make claims about the future, human personality, and so forth, it must be based in science and proven true to be taken seriously, thus being subject to scientific method. Astrology has failed every test when put through scientific examination (http://undsci.berkeley.edu... and http://www.scientificexploration.org... and for a complete list of studies http://www.truthmagazine.com... ). Every opportunity to be proven true, to have any validity, it has failed, year after year, century after century. Astrology is therefore a pseudo-science claiming to have knowledge is it clearly does not posses. Astrology has been disproved by science, it is unfalsifiable --an essential component of science which sets it apart from non science -- as well as astrology illuminates confirmation bias in subjects during studies on astrology (http://skeptico.blogs.com...) Confirmation biased is when one look for events or instances that support their beliefs but discard the ones that counter their beliefs. Secondly, the astrological sign is incorrect. The zodiac was illustrated long before numerous planets and stars in our solar system had been discovered, furthermore, the cosmos have shifted since the zodiac was composed more than 25,000 years ago (http://www.historyworld.net...). With convolutions in the understanding of astrology's beginnings, as well as it not being scientific, the aspect that the cosmos have shifted since the zodiac was drawn is yet another enormous hindrance in astrology. Also, their is no reason to believe that the constellations have any impact on the future or human personality, as science has studied this concept, and has retrieved no validity to this claim. Thirdly, claims such as "Me myself match most of the requirements for my zodiac" is easily able to be unpacked. Confirmation biased as we discussed above plays a major role. A study conducted by Dr. Douglas Hofstadter, a cognitive psychologist, gave hundreds of people a questionnaire, though no one knew all the questionnaires were the same and their answers didn't matter, as they would all individuality receive the same response a few days later. The response read "Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other time you are introverted, wary and reserved. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. You pride yourself on being an independent thinker and do not accept others' opinions without satisfactory proof. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety, and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Disciplined and controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. . . While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a strong need for other people to like you and for them to admire you" in which they all agreed it accurately described them" (http://www.truthmagazine.com...). This is exactly what astrology does combined with confirmation biased, it makes general mundane claims in hopes of applying to everyone, if certain claims don't apply, the people who want to believe tend to forget those particular non applicable claims; however these claims are not influenced by "a mystical, ancient, or supernatural phenomena [that] allows it to do so." Lastly, to make predictions about the future without science is absurd, but ignoring some crucial examples is absurd as well. Identical twins don't have the same future, being showed the immediate or long-term future has larger more complicated implications for philosophical issues, such as one could alter the outcome of the future thus proving the future predictions untrue.