I'm sure the more emotionally soothing answer from our creationist friends is "Poof! God did it". Now that's a magic trick.
Anti-creationists are thus because they are too math-impaired to envision the scale of the universe and cannot see empirical data, such as metapatterns, before their eyes. They lack sufficient spatial reasoning ability.
People who lack the upper reaches of intelligence often also lack the ability to understand that they are not that intelligent; hence their circular logic: I don't understand it, therefore it is invalid. Rather than ask probing questions in an effort to understand unfamiliar topics, they defensively, and often derisively, dismiss ideas beyond the limits of their cognitive abilities, actively blocking the growth of intelligence within themselves.
So give us the less emotionally soothing answer.
Tell us how it happened. What caused it?
Sigh. Why are evolutionists so simple-minded and uneducated?
When I used the term "magic tricks" to describe evolution, I was actually referring to the underlying worldview that describes evolutionism. It's interesting how often evolutionists will refer to evolution teleologically - as if evolution were an intelligent actor, doing what it does with a definite set of ends in view (just look at the way many evos will speak about evolution - "it developed this structure in the eye", "it developed the whale's fin", "birds developed this ability over millions of years so they could _fill in blank_", etc.) There is a reason for this - deep down inside, every creature with even a modicum of intelligence understands that you don't get life from non-life, and you don't get increased organisation for free. "Something" has to account for these things. Theists account this "something" as "God." Evolutionists reckon this "something" to be....evolution. In other words, though their reasoning is entirely circular and self-referential, it still belies a teleological "Maker", operationally speaking.
Now, if "God" is not this "Maker", but instead evolution's "Maker" is entirely naturalistic, arising from within the cosmos while yet being a product of the same cosmos, which yet acts via a less-than-random driving principle, this still makes evolutionism's view of the cosmos to not be that unlike that posited by the Stoics. In other words, evolutionism posits an essentially pantheistic universe, only with naturalism forming the "theistic" in pantheistic. Evolution suggests, then, that the spontaneous appearance of life and order was the result of the universe working with itself, which is a sympathetic action which is basically the same as that posited by the Stoics as well, and which was common to the Greco-Roman classical worldview, which in turn was a justification for all kinds of things which depended upon the sympathetic interaction of the universe with itself for a teleological end - things like astrology and magic. Hence, the "magic tricks" comment.