Is Atrology Scientific? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Sir, my question is very blatant. My question is what is your opinion about astrology?

00:10 A narrative cannot be termed as a science. I come up with a story and I say this story

00:19 is science. No, the story is not science. Science is based on verifiable and falsifiable

00:27 experiments. Show me that it works. Display it right in front of me and I'll be very happy

00:36 to accept. And nothing can ever be displayed in this field. All you have is a set of beliefs.

00:46 Belief that this thing will happen. Why to believe it? Because you know some person has

00:52 been talking of these things. So you too should believe. If you don't believe, maybe you'll

00:57 meet some harm. So it's safer for you that you just believe. There's no sense in this.

01:07 There's just fear and insecurity. I have nothing against things that emerge freshly and invalidate

01:34 the pre-existing knowledge. But there has to be authenticity, right? There has to be

01:42 verifiability. And an experiment should hold demonstrative value. If you conduct an experiment

02:00 two times under the same conditions, the result must be the same. These are some basic prerequisites

02:08 right before you can call anything as science. Else how do you term it as science? Take the

02:20 basic Newton's laws of motion. By the Newton's laws, if I pick this thing up, right, and

02:32 I drop it from here, it should take a certain time hitting this table. And if I start at

02:43 zero velocity, it would attain a certain velocity as it hits the table. And those laws are expressed

02:52 in basic equations such as the final velocity will be equal to the initial velocity plus

03:00 gravity times the time elapsed, v is equal to u plus a t. You can calculate the time

03:15 taken. If I do it 100 times, the result will be the same. Assuming that this is a vacuum,

03:26 assuming there is no air resistance. I may do, I may perform this experiment with objects

03:33 of any shape, any size, the result will be the same. Assuming there is no air drag. Demonstrate

03:41 that to me in astrology and I will be very happy to accept it as a science. Else it's

03:47 a myth. It's a bundle of unverified beliefs. And in that we all are entitled to believe

03:58 as we want. Nobody will jail you for your beliefs. You want to believe in something

04:04 and continue to believe in it, but don't term it as logical or rational or scientific. There

04:12 is no logic. There is just story. You may love a story. Fine. That's your subjective

04:20 choice, but don't call it a science. It's a story and quite an entertaining story. Also

04:30 quite a profit yielding story. If I look at the size of the astrology industry today and

04:40 the number of astrology apps that are available on Play Stores etc. So it's a story that

04:48 is making big money for a lot of storytellers. Fine. It's between them and their clients.

04:57 If the clients choose to pay just to hear stories, who am I to object? And I'm not

05:22 trying to offend the religious feelings of people. All I'm saying is, whatsoever is

05:32 postulated there is just that, a postulate. You are supposing something, you are positing

05:42 something. It is not available to verification. And since it is not available to verification,

05:52 to me it is a story.

05:53 [Music]

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