[ahayes]

Try Googling the text in #23 and #70 and you’ll turn up the transcript of the trial.

In order to include ID in the realm of science, Behe had to redefine “science” such that astrology was included.

[RobbyS]

Sorry. I didn't read "23 before: Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that -- which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one, and so is the ether theory of the propagation of light, and many other -- many other theories as well.

I agree with him. Astrology was based on inferences from a huge number of observations over a period of thirty -five hundred years. A lot of intelligent people believed in it. Kepler made his living serving as a court astrologer. (The Catholic Church, BTW, was opposed to it because it deprives human beings of their freedom. In other words, dogma opposed science.) It wasn't until the telescope great increased the astronomical data base that astrology ceased to be plausible to educated people.