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¿No sería algo obviamente bueno tener en la sala del jurado al menos una o dos personas que puedan enmendar la ignorancia de sus desconcertados colegas? ¿Qué tipo de abogado puede preferir un jurado incapaz de seguir la argumentación de la acusación o la defensa? La respuesta es: cualquier abogado más interesado en ganar que en que se haga justicia. En otras palabras, un abogado. Y parece ser un hecho que los abogados, tanto de la acusación como de la defensa, rechazan con frecuencia a miembros concretos del jurado precisamente porque son versados en ciencia.

¿No sería algo obviamente bueno tener en la sala del jurado al menos una o dos personas que puedan enmendar la ignorancia de sus desconcertados colegas? ¿Qué tipo de abogado puede preferir un jurado incapaz de seguir la argumentación de la acusación o la defensa? La respuesta es: cualquier abogado más interesado en ganar que en que se haga justicia. En otras palabras, un abogado. Y parece ser un hecho que los abogados, tanto de la acusación como de la defensa, rechazan con frecuencia a miembros concretos del jurado precisamente porque son versados en ciencia.

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Gittelson also uses many of the rationalizations that astrologers use, and in much the same way. For example, it seems that biorhythm does not compel, it only impels, a point astrologers make about their own "science." Thus, any discrepancy between fact and theory is forgivable. But Gittelson is quite aware of this weakness and says so. The author presents his case in such a way that any analysis can be interpreted as consistent with the theory.

Indeed, the belief in astrology among the Nazi hierarchy was so strong that the Allied forces employed astrologers to tell them when the Nazis would believe that the stars were right for various important undertakings. It was to little avail, however. Astrologers are accustomed to telling people what they want to hear, and tend to speak in generalities that can be interpreted in more than one way. Neither process was of any use in the war effort.

According to Evry Schatzman, president of the Union Rationaliste in France, "The actual social function of astrology is to help isolate the faithful from social and political struggles." He may be right. It certainly serves to release man from having to take the blame for his own stupidities. A bad conjunction of planets can always be blamed for unfortunate occurrences. Whatever its function, astrology is an irrationality that serves mankind poorly. Dennis Rawlins, an astronomer, perhaps said it best: "Those who believe in astrology are living in houses with foundations of Silly Putty."

Accepting the claims of astrology is much like accepting the laws pertaining to property rights and slavery set up over three thousand years ago by the rulers of Babylon, and using their theories of medicine as well, for that is when the rules that are still used by modern astrologers today were devised. When this rigid set of regulations came up against the Christian faith, there arose a problem that was, as usual, neatly explained away by the practitioners. The one single horoscope that would seem of greatest interest to early Christians was that of Christ, but the astrologers, well aware of the opposition of the church to their art (the priests had their own methods to promote), feared casting such a horoscope because they would be accused of making God subject to the controlling forces of the heavens He had created! Such a paradox was not to be countenanced. But Roger Bacon, a devout astrologer and Christian, saved the situation with a masterpiece of rationalization. He declared, in a letter to the pope, that God had willed his son to be born at a time when the signs were auspicious and in harmony with the constellations. Bravo!

Accepting the claims of astrology is much like accepting the laws pertaining to property rights and slavery set up over three thousand years ago by the rulers of Babylon, and using their theories of medicine as well, for that is when the rules that are still used by modern astrologers today were devised. When this rigid set of regulations came up against the Christian faith, there arose a problem that was, as usual, neatly explained away by the practitioners. The one single horoscope that would seem of greatest interest to early Christians was that of Christ, but the astrologers, well aware of the opposition of the church to their art (the priests had their own methods to promote), feared casting such a horoscope because they would be accused of making God subject to the controlling forces of the heavens He had created! Such a paradox was not to be countenanced. But Roger Bacon, a devout astrologer and Christian, saved the situation with a masterpiece of rationalization. He declared, in a letter to the pope, that God had willed his son to be born at a time when the signs were auspicious and in harmony with the constellations. Bravo!