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To: metmom
How do magicians do magic?

By trickery.

Anything outside the natural.

Like what?

But magic cannot have a natural source or it wouldn't be considered magic

LOL, who says?

How do you explain events which defy the known laws of nature?

Such as?

What is the mechanism which supersedes them?

I don't know of anything that supersedes natural laws. If something exists in nature it is natural whether we understand it or not.

4,173 posted on 12/01/2010 11:21:47 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; Diamond
I don't know of anything that supersedes natural laws.

YOU don't. That doesn't mean that something you don't know about doesn't somewhere.

To make blanket statements and think they apply to all places for all time, you would have to know everything, everywhere, for all time and eternity. You don't. The only way to conclusively say what you're claiming is if you were omniscient, and you aren't.

If something exists in nature it is natural whether we understand it or not.

Making your life experiences the standard by which to measure and judge everything boxes you in. It does not allow for an honest, objective appraisal of the world around you. Restricting the explanations of phenomena to completely *natural* ones does the same thing.

It amounts to willful blindness, much like the person who plugs their ears and sings, *La, la,la, laaaaaaa, I can't hear you.....*

It's also working on the presumption that you are correct in your interpretation of the evidence and since you are within the system (of nature) so to speak, it is impossible to step outside it and be truly objective about what is observed and the source or reason for an event happening.

But this is not new ground. You've been told this before.

4,238 posted on 12/02/2010 6:59:26 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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