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You can't prove it doesn't exist (as you can't with anything else), but no one proved it does exist either.
As a skeptical and someone who's been a realist and a fan of physics (aswel as atheist/agnostic) since I grew a brain, I simply ignore the so-called "magic" until someone comes up with scientific proof for it's existence.
But this is contraditory, because if it is explained, it's no longer magic, is it?
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That is quite possibly true. Twice now the French and Americans have gone to Haiti with the best intentions of setting up a stable economy and introducing them to Christianity. Both times they let their societies crumble and rejected Jesus in turn for their Voodoo snake worship BS. The natural disasters frequently hitting Haiti is likely the wrath of God himself.
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Every time we peel back another layer of the Universe there is less magic and more understanding.
Yet, it seems to me, the ancient soothsayers, alchemists, and astrologers were on a hunt for the truth, for deeper understanding of the Universe and its' rules of operation.
If you could call back from "beyond" the great alchemists and wizards of all time, they would abandon their smoky stone-tower secret labs and apply for jobs at Fermilab and CERN, or go to work for Genitech and Pfizer.
Our modern fascination with magic is (at least in those I have been exposed to) not a search for truth, but a desire for an alternative to the truth. A desire to possess secrets not available to the common-minded regardless of their intellect. Science is the true decendant of those Socerers; modern followers of Magic recoil at the democratization of knowledge and seek an emotional state something like nostalgia mixed with the old secret-handshake-to-get-in.
Searching for wonder beyond the minds capacity to encompass? Take a look at the Scale of the Universe thread! Geez, quarks and quantum foam? string theory? What has magic got to compare to that?
PS. If you practice Magic and feel this does not describe you, my apologies. I can only describe those people I've interacted with, not everybody out there.
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