Astrology vs. Rationality
I've been watching a lot of videos on Dawkins' YouTube channel lately. Last night I watched the Four Horsemen. I was struck by how effortlessly they lumped astrology in with supernatural beliefs. I did have a roommate who got seriously into astrology for a while so I couldn't help but pick up an above-average amount of information on the subject. But let me just preface this by saying I put no serious store in it, I don't regularly check newspaper horoscopes, and if I happen to read one, it's more just for fun than anything else. I don't bestow any kind of "faith" onto it.
However, my position is this. I think we can all agree that the moon controls the tides (no small feat) and has a very strong effect on things like menstrual cycles. Yes? So why is it so huge a leap to suggest that different constellations of stars, with different patterns of gravitational pull, could have some more subtle effect on at least human physiology and perhaps therefore our psychology?
And if we can grant just for the sake of this argument that that might be true, since humans have been watching the skies likely from the beginning of human history, why is it so implausible that we could have discerned similarities in events over time that correspond with specific celestial phenomena?
Maybe I'm gullible, but to me, that sounds an awful lot like simply Science.