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Explaining Astrology to a Skeptic

The Astrology Podcast

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Ptolemy's Justification for Astrology

Ptolemy wrote a book on astrology because he was trying to create this almost unified scientific view of the world. He tried to justify or explain astrology within the context of the prevailing scientific paradigm in his day, which is in the second century. The analogy is kind of like if there was a scientist or a polymath today in the early 21st century who came up with a justification for astrology and how it could work. It would be thrown out as well when people had too closely associated their broader explanation for how it can work with just some current scientific paradigm.

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