[lutusp]

> Actually, science is mostly observation and description.

That's not science, that is a preliminary to science. If this were not so, astrologers -- who do lots of observing and describing -- would be scientists.

[aninhumer]

If you think observation is "preliminary" to science, then you fundamentally misunderstand the scientific method.

The reason Astrologers are not scientists is not that they don't try to work out why the positions of planets might affect the future.

The reason they are not scientists is that they don't observe the world to see if they actually do.