(September 26, 2016 at 10:16 am)_Velvet_ Wrote: We source it from somewhere else so it is not magic.
If we observe actions which violate long standing empirical patterns, it hardly matters that the 'magic' comes from the island of magic. It also doesn't matter if the island is very large or even the size of our own universe. Magic is an apparent exception to the natural norm.
Of course the 'natural norm' is a piece of work in progress, mostly brought to you by science. If you produce a unicorn whose excrement violates the natural norm, science would rightly want to understand the mechanism by which it does so. That is, it would want to amend the natural norm to accommodate new observations. There is no 'magic' which is different in kind to the natural, there is only virgin natural phenomenon waiting to be described and understood.
