Are you sure you know how the scientific method works?
Yes, and more importantly how it doesn’t work.
Most reduced, the basic process is
Observe phenomena
Hypothesize the cause of the phenomena
Validate/invalidate (ideally) the hypothesis by rigorous experiment which establishes a causal link between the hypothesized cause (dv) and the hypothesized effect (iv).
Step 3 is essentially not done at all in astronomy. Fundamentally this is why astronomy is largely nonsense. Speculation built on millennia of it.
Natural law (simply measuring/recording “what is”, not determining why or how) is still a part of science however, and so astronomy is scientific in that regard.
Because experiment is a technical vernacular with a rigorous definition. The colloquial definitions most all of us learn are incorrect.
Are you seriously that ignorant?
I was once!
Name one astronomical theory that wasn't verified through experiments.
Most any of them. You pick one, and an experiment or two that bore it.
The reason is because, in science, theory is bore of repeated experiment. Without experiment, there can be no theory.
Mere observation can never be an experiment. There are very good reasons for this in science.
As i said, essentially the only way which astronomy is science is in establishing natural law (what is, not why or how). All whys and hows in astronomy are pseudoscience/mythology/religion masquerading as science.
Not by experiment, no.
Precisely.
Yes, and more importantly how it doesn’t work.
Most reduced, the basic process is
Step 3 is essentially not done at all in astronomy. Fundamentally this is why astronomy is largely nonsense. Speculation built on millennia of it.
Natural law (simply measuring/recording “what is”, not determining why or how) is still a part of science however, and so astronomy is scientific in that regard.
Yes by experiment. Why on earth are you claiming otherwise?
Are you seriously that ignorant?
Name one astronomical theory that wasn't verified through experiments.
Because experiment is a technical vernacular with a rigorous definition. The colloquial definitions most all of us learn are incorrect.
I was once!
Most any of them. You pick one, and an experiment or two that bore it.
The reason is because, in science, theory is bore of repeated experiment. Without experiment, there can be no theory.
Mere observation can never be an experiment. There are very good reasons for this in science.
As i said, essentially the only way which astronomy is science is in establishing natural law (what is, not why or how). All whys and hows in astronomy are pseudoscience/mythology/religion masquerading as science.