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Re: For Ceremonial purposes?

Aug 18, 2013, 17:05

tiompan wrote:

Without science we would still be thinking these monuments were built by the Mycenaens , Druids or Romans...

Putative alignments have never been discovered by astrologers of any ilk , the Stonehenge alignment was first noted by Stukeley who used scientific methods in his work and was a fellow of the Royal Society .

You forget that Kepler and Galileo were court astrologers, and that without their pioneering work astronomy, as we now know it, would not exist. Stukeley may have been a Fellow of the Royal Society but he was also a clergyman, described himself as a Druid and was interested in Freemasonry ;-)

It’s all too easy to dismiss areas of study such as acupuncture, astrology, dowsing etc as pseudosciences or, in your own words a, “...type of arrogance [that] we might expect from astrologers and woo merchants...” while forgetting the foundation work men (and women) from all ages and all cultures have laid down. More importantly we may be forgetting the true meaning of the word 'science' – ie a, “Knowledge acquired by study; acquaintance with or mastery of a department of learning.” (OED).

That leaves the ballpark open for all sorts of fun and games in my humble opinion :-)

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