what is the difference between astronomy and astrology?

Question

please guide me regarding science question.

Answer 1

Astrology is the study of the relationship between cosmic events and events on earth.



Astronomy is a fascinating yet fundamentally useless pseudoscience that is a goldmine for guys that want to be paid to peer through telescopes at the taxpayers' expense so they never have to grow up and assume responsibility for themselves - preferring to determine the age of the universe and other senseless quests. See "Tilting at Windmills."



EDIT: Those that fail at astronomy usually take up sillier studies like climate science.



>The word science is a verb not a noun<



Please "science" for me. (You're a riot)



From the online American Heritage dictionary:



sci '·ence



NOUN:



The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.

Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.

Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.

Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.

An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.



NOTE:

*******Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.*******



You know as much about English as you do about astrology and science.



EDIT: How "Science handles results they don't like, from Markab's link on the Cura website:



" In the report KZA tried to obscure the clear success Gauquelin had scored. The Control Test had entailed analyzing 16,756 non-champions born near (in time and space) 303 champions (a sub-sample of the original 2088 champions). KZA had believed that they too would score at 22 percent in key sectors ( I and 4) thus establishing that the champions' 22 percent hit rate was "natural."

Instead the non-champions scored at exactly the chance -level (17 percent) that Gauquelin and I had predicted from our Mars/dawn-corrected expectation-curve analysis.

Faced with this disaster KZA pulled a bait-and-switch."



"Bottom line, ask if the claim can be tested. You have the Net at your fingertips, search for independent test results." And when you don't like the results, lie about it. That's the scientific method Chain loves.

Answer 2

Astrology is a magical thinking based form of divination. A belief there is a relationship between random cosmic events and with the Earth being the center of focus. No modern "astrologer" observes the sky and has not for centuries. It's strictly point of view guessing at best, unable to outperform randomness. Not too long ago, (maybe to separate itself from other fortune telling systems) astrology task changed, it is now the great brain programmer. The first breath of our lungs trips our identity. No consistency or logical reasoning on how this happens, but it's good enough for some people to make a living on.



Astronomy is a true science. Based on real observations that can be detected, measured, and tested. As more tools became available, the self correcting nature of this science becomes apparent. In just in a few hundred years, we have gone from a small geocentric view of the fortune tellers to detecting galaxies billions of light years away. Even astrology cherry picks for it's own use the results of astronomy.



Everything in astronomy can and has passed testing. It's real and has real beauty. Just look at photo taken from Hubble. We are the product of stars that have existed and died before our Sun. Stardust made us and astronomy has given us vast knowledge of our past and future.



The word science is a verb not a noun. It is a neutral method for testing nature. Pseudo is a prefix meaning false. Take a look for the evidence for astrology and astronomy before assigning the label.



Bottom line, ask if the claim can be tested. You have the Net at your fingertips, search for independent test results.



"In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right; then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is — if it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong."

— Richard P. Feynman

Answer 3

Obviously, they aren't the same but each deserve respect in their own right.



Astronomy is the study of the universe, planets,stars, galaxies, etc. using a telescope, binocular and other equipment.



Astrology is the study of human behaviour based on a person's birthdate, time when born, and location. Each zodiac sign has their own month and date, of which their are 12 signs. Each sign is ruled by a planet and they each have their descriptions of how they affect a person's personality, etc. Astrology is based on celestial events that affect mankind personality, etc.

Answer 4

Astronomy is a science that studies space.



Astrology is all the horoscope stuff, like how the transit of Venus effects your personality and other nonsense like that.

Answer 5

Despite the assurances of YA's resident tent healer, the word "science" is indeed a noun. Like many English words, "science" covers quite a bit of ground and like many English words, it is misunderstood. The word comes from Latin verb "scientia" to know, but in English it is a noun. It was always and still is a word to describe a body of knowledge. Both astrology and astronomy are bodies of knowledge.



However, most people understand the word "science" to mean the applied sciences. Astronomy is an applied science as is chemistry, physics, and biology. They are also bodies of knowledge. Astrology is not an applied science and never claimed to be. Psychology is not an applied science either, neither is "political science" or any of the humanities. So astronomy is an applied science. Astrology is not. Not being an applied science, by itself, is not a disqualification for validity.





Despite what is preached in the tents, it is not possible to test astronomy, or physics, or chemistry etc. No one can "prove" chemistry any more than they can prove astrology. There is no test for physics. But the scientific method is used (applied) within those bodies of knowledge to advance them, hence the term "applied science." Astrology to date is not an applied science and very little sensible testing has been applied to astrology. 'Gotcha" games set up by stage magicians and comedy teams, and a priori reasoning are not scientific tests. The money necessary to do such research is too jealously coveted by the priestly class. They want it all for themselves and childishly refuse to work for it, preferring that the state confiscate it for them. If you wonder why the so-called scientists still cling to the man made global warming myth the answer is money. There is no money in telling the government that there is no man made global warming. There is more money in six months worth of grants than has been made by astrologers in all of human history.



Statistics or the use of statistics is an applied science and Michele Gauquelin used statistics to test one of the tenets of astrology, and found connections between position of the planets in charts and eminence in professions in numbers greater than chance, and for 50 years the so-called scientists have been having hissy fits over it going so far as to lie about their own results when their honest testing replicated Gauquelin's findings, and to smear a CSICOP member, Dennis Rawlins, who refused to go along with their dishonest publication of their test results.



http://cura.free.fr/xv/14starbb.html



The point is not that Gauquelin discovered that astrology is an applied science or that Gauquelin even "proved" astrology. Gauquelin did demonstrate that in numbers greater than chance, a planet's position in the chart can be an indicator of future prominence. His research has been upheld and the best the skeptics can do is accuse him of cheating and rigging the outcome (for what reason? He was a psychologist and statistician, not an astrologer, and had no financial stake in the outcome) and quibble over the definition of eminence.



So astrology is the study of the relationship between cosmic events and events on earth. Astronomy is the study of the mechanics of the cosmos (to what end is a bit of a mystery). Astrology is not an applied science. Astronomy is an applied science. Both are bodies of knowledge.



One more interesting bit for your paper. Well two maybe. One is that the original purpose of astronomical observations was to use them in astrology. Contrary to popular lore they weren't really synonymous, but sometimes writer's didn't work very hard to distinguish them. The other is that both bodies of knowledge set out to do the same thing (if we grant the best of motives to the practitioners of both). They both are attempts to make order out of apparent chaos and therefore help man understand his place in the world better. Of the two, astrology has done a better job, although it has been suppressed largely through ignorance. The scientists would have us believe that the creation and ordering of the universe is one big fat coincidence. Astrologers believe there is a reason for everything. Think about that before the tent healers prevent you from doing so.

Answer 6

one makes you smarter and the other makes you dumb