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In ancient times people were trying to find reasons things happened so they looked to the cosmo's for answers. While astrology is fun, and interesting, it's not going to yield any concrete results. At best it may get some things right some of the time but it's more a game of chance.
In ancient times people were trying to find reasons things happened so they looked to the cosmo's for answers.
Waddya mean "in ancient times"? People do that today. Yourself included, if I may be so bold as to mention. You believe in God, right? Exact same thing.
Yes, I do believe in God. But I also know what causes earthquakes, solar eclipses, and so on. Spoiler alert, it isn't God.
Hold on. You're contradicting yourself. You said in ancient times when people were looking for reasons for things, but your examples (earthquakes, solar eclipses etc...) are all things we already have reasons for. Hence, anything you don't have a reason for you attribute to God, just like they did in ancient times.
Your original statement concerned things we do not possess the reasons for, so comparing that to things we do possess the reasons for is a false analogy.
In ancient times they didn't. They looked to the stars for answers or to Gods
And as I have explained patiently twice, people still do that now for all the things they don't have reasons for. Hence, your effort to elicit a difference between then and now has fallen rather flat I'm afraid.
Creating something and being the cause of something else don't always sync. The Wright brothers invented airplanes, does that mean they are responsible for every plane crash in existence?
Creating something and being the cause of something else don't always sync.
Seems logical.
The Wright brothers invented airplanes, does that mean they are responsible for every plane crash in existence?
I'd say they were involved, aka "indirectly responsible", but not directly responsible, meaning "of no guilt".
I would say you can be responsible for something but not be guilty of wrongdoing at the same time. For example, if nothing in our history ever moved, but a first thing moved, whatever made it move in the first place could theoretically be responsible for all things that move afterwards. But, they wouldn't be responsible in a guilt oriented way if 5,000,000 moves later a kid is hit by an asteroud. Nevertheless, they would still be the first cause.
