Q18 - Those influenced by modern Western

[rdown2b]

Can someone explain this problem for me?

[maryadkins]

This is a flaw question. The core is:

in the past, people who were intelligent and scientific accepted astrology as fact

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there is no scientific basis for rejecting astrology today

This is silly, of course. We used to think the world was flat, too. (A) captures that a scientifically sound theory during one point in time may not be scientifically sound at another point in time.

(B) says that since the issue controversial, arguing astrology is scientific is wrong. This is out of scope (and doesn't make much sense, anyway).
(C) is unsupported. We're actually not told whether the people in the past who liked astrology were Western or not. We're only told that the people skeptical of it today are.
(D) is not in the argument. All practitioners of Western science believe in astrology? It says the opposite.
(E) is irrelevant. The argument is about the scientific basis for astrology.