It's time to dispense with astrology

I understand the attraction. I really do. I get it. It's religious in nature and is almost irresistable. It's the need for an answer, a key to the universe that will open a door to understanding life's big mysteries. An easy way out, a magic bullet that will make some sense out of all this chaos, randomness and uncertainty.



As Carl Sagan pointed out in his landmark series Cosmos thirty years ago, every major newspaper has a column for astrology yet none have one for astronomy. And if you're keeping score it's astronomy that's the real science, not astrology. Yet we stampede towards the superstitious and away from rational thought. The second video with Richard Dawkins is especially devastating to anyone who believes in astrology. Isn't it past time that we woke up and discarded belief systems that were debunked long ago? Can we survive as a civilization while armed with high tech weaponry while at the same time holding onto the world view of a medieval peasant?