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Clash-Not a Disaster
The apparently unbridgeable gap that exists between astrology and modern science and their continuing clash is understandable because they differ in several respect in their approach and reasoning; the former branch of investigation has a holistic approach to the whole phenomenon of life and universe, while the latter is mainly confined to an analysis of the parts. We have in India a huge mass of studies and treatises on astrology. Even a cursory examination would reveal that many of them are the outcome of inquiries of earnest and intelligent explorers and there is ample evidence of planetary influences and their relevance to life. However, it is the above-mentioned difference that invokes the clash. In this context, one is reminded of what renowned mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitefield in his essay Religion and Science, published in the book Science: Method and meaning (New York University) has to say: " A clash of doctrines is not a disaster- it is an opportunity."
Citing some example from science itself, like the two contradictory theories about the nature of light, Newton's corpuscular and Huyghens' wave theories and pointing out that while one group of phenomena can be explained only on the wave theory, another large group can be explained only on the corpuscular theory, whitehead makes a though-provoking observation on the clash between science and religion, which is also very apt in the clash between science and astrology.
We should believe nothing in either sphere of thought, which does not appear to us to be certified by solid reasons based upon the critical research either of ourselves or of competent authorities. But granting that we have honestly taken this precaution, a clash between the two on points of detail where they overlap should not lead us hastily to abandon doctrines for which we have solid evidence. It may be that we are more interested in one set of doctrines than in the other. But, if we have any sense of perspective and of the history of though, we shall wait and refrain from mutual anathemas. We should wait: but we should not wait passively, or in despair. The clash is a sign that there are wider truths and finer perspective within which a reconciliation of a deeper religion and more subtle science will be found. |
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