Debunking Astrology and its Effects on Human Personalities - Neil Degrasse Tyson Explains

We talk about how the Earth is not at the center of the universe, but rather orbits the sun like the other planets. We also discuss how the constellations, which were created by ancient civilizations like the Babylonians, Romans, and Greeks, are not actually accurate representations of what they claim to be. These stories and personifications of the stars are a holdover from a pre-scientific era and have no real effect on us today.

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You connect the dots, are you really drawing a crab? Connect the dots. Is there really, there's a centaur archer? Really? Really? Is that what we're drawing here? And you're not only going to draw that, you're going to put personality traits in. By the way, and the people who came up with this are sleepless Babylonians, Romans, and Greeks, right? They're not getting any sleep. So they wake up, oh, I got a story. They tell the story, they put it in the sky, name gods after it, and now you're going to say that the stories of these sleepless civilizations have such meaning that these stars in your night sky, which would look different from any other angle, somehow know that you were born and wants to influence you. I'm just saying that it's a holdover from a pre-scientific era when we genuinely thought the Earth was in the middle of the known universe. And that is not the case. None of this has any effect on us at all.

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It's not too often I agree with him, but he has a point.

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The patterns are SYMBOLS of intangible concepts. Please, Professor De Bunk, submit you birth data anonymously to someone who understands astrology, because clearly this is Greek to you.