2000 years ago, nobody understood why ANYTHING happened, really. So EVERYTHING was 'magic'.
Over the past 200 years in particular, we've discovered WHY so, so many things happen/are the way they are. And guess what?
IT NEVER TURNS OUT TO BE MAGIC. EVER.
And yet, the religious folk cling to this tiny sliver of things for which science hasn't QUITE come up with a perfect answer for ... how was the universe created? How did life itself begin (although to be honest science is damn close on that one)? Etc.
And somehow they conclude that for THESE tiny handful of questions, despite ALL the evidence that NONE of what people thought 2000 years ago about the nature of reality has turned out to be true, nor to have 'magical' properties ... that THESE questions ARE in fact likely to turn out to indeed have 'magic-based' answers ... that never ceases to amaze me.
All available evidence exceptionally strongly supports the idea that there is no such thing as 'magic', people. No gods, ghosts, devils, heaven, hell, afterlives, angels, luck, ESP, psychics, leprechauns, witches ... etc.
There is physics, and its adjunct, chemistry. That's it.
Bummer, I know.
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