Sounds like creationism/ID to me.
It appears our schools need much stronger programs in reading comprehension and logic, then. Neither creationist belief nor the Intelligent Design hypothesis has anything to do with controlling or forecasting natural events, effects, or forces. They are, rather, ways of viewing present-day facts in order to deduce past events, just as Darwinism is.
ID is creationism and creationism is magic. Creationists claim that God spoke words and created the natural world. That is controlling natural events by invoking the supernatural. Magic by definition.