Astrology isn't a science in its early stages. Astronomy thrived at one time until people saw with their own eyes.
About Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences:
Its chair of the board of trustees wrote, "The founding of Kepler College is the most important event in astrology's history in several centuries. We at Kepler believe that bringing astrology back into a college setting is long overdue."
What an understatement! The Copernican theories of the late 1400s were proven beyond doubt by circumnavigation the global seas and the new telescope in the 1500s. By the 1600s, astrology as a “science” was pretty much bebunked by anyone with the ability to look up and think.
But The Flat Earth Society and its conspiracy theory that flights to the moon and pictures sent back by spaceship Galileo are fake is living proof that the gullible are still strong in number and sheep need to be fleeced.
Dr. Alvin Kwiram of the University of Washington calls Kepler "Ludicrous" in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and wonders if someone will now start “a college of quack medicine?" (as if it didn’t already have several thriving campuses).
Dr. John Silber of Boston University wrote in The Boston Herald, "The promoters of Kepler College have honored [Johannes] Kepler [the astronomer/astrologer of the late 1500s and early 1600s for whom the college is named] not for his strength but for his weakness, as if a society advocating drunkenness named a school for Ernest Hemingway."
Anyway, through a fluke in Washington state law, the college now can legally collect money for degrees in the once again “science” of astrology, and people I know who claim to be gifted in what was reduced for centuries to a shady “art” are flocking to pay the price in order to legitimize their passing the bunco buck on to others.
For shame. P.T. Barnum should have added to “There’s a sucker born every minute”: . . . and there’s a grifter born every other minute to take his sweets and leave him the shaft.
