Assertion: astrology | /r/HasProperty | science
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: in man's early history
type: TEMPORAL
value: in a 1992 eurobarometer poll
type: TEMPORAL
value: despite experiments
type: OTHER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: despite many trial
type: OTHER
value: with these trappings of science
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Astrology: Science or superstition?
text: Many astrologers claim that astrology is scientific, while some have proposed conventional causal agents such as electromagnetism and gravity.
text: But even with these trappings of science, is astrology really a scientific way to answer questions?
text: Astrology is a scientific study that describes influence of the planets over the living organism on Earth.
text: Did you know that Astrology was considered science in man's early history?
text: Though often regarded as a science throughout its history, astrology is widely considered today to be diametrically opposed to the findings and theories of modern Western science.
text: Is Astrology a Science?
text: Many contemporary astrologers, however, do not claim that astrology is a science, but think of it as a form of divination like the I-Ching, an art, or a part of a spiritual belief structure (influenced by trends such as Neoplatonism, Neopaganism, Theosophy, and Hinduism).[citation needed]
text: A recent poll by the National Science Foundation showed that more than 40% of Americans think astrology is a science —
text: Many practitioners of astrology claim that astrology is indeed a science however, despite many trial and experiments, the effectiveness and scientific evidence of astrology is still yet to be demonstrated.
text: Astrology is a science which correlates the events on earth with the movements of the celestial bodies like sun, moon, stars and planets.
text: Is astrology science?
text: Thus astrology is science, religion of its own that can give helping hand to the distressed people in their bad times.
text: "Astrology" is "the ancient art or science of divining the fate and future of human beings from indications given by the positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies" - Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 2, p. 575, 1956.
text: The NSF study noted that in 2012, "slightly more than half of Americans said that astrology was 'not at all scientific,' whereas nearly two-thirds gave this response in 2010.
text: Many astrologers claim that astrology is scientific.
text: The closeness of the two words varies depending on the language.:344, 346 A plain description of astrology as an "occult influence of stars, planets etc. on human affairs" had no impact on the general public's assessment of whether astrology is scientific or not in a 1992 eurobarometer poll.
text: In particular, belief that astrology was very scientific was 26% while that of horoscopes was 7%.:352
text: They like to trot out the National Science Foundation survey that measures whether people think astrology is scientific, and remind readers that it’s not.
text: Is astrology scientific?
text: If astrology is so scientific, why hasn't it adjusted to the Copernican revolution and put the sun in the center instead of the earth?