So you have no way to explain that "miracle" of a bowling ball falling out of a sketch pad. Instead, you resort of an ad hominem attack. Typical, so sadly typical.
The "magic" of a stage magician works for the same reason that a natural phenomenon being observed by a scientifically ignorant layman does. You cannot explain how it happened, so you assume
magic. There is no difference whatsoever.
Here's a quote from one of my signatures here:
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Gentry's case depends upon his halos remaining a mystery. Once a naturalistic explanation is discovered, his claim of a supernatural origin is washed up. So he will not give aid or support to suggestions that might resolve the mystery. Science works toward an increase in knowledge; creationism depends upon a lack of it. Science promotes the open-ended search; creationism supports giving up and looking no further. It is clear which method Gentry advocates.
("Gentry's Tiny Mystery -- Unsupported by Geology" by J. Richard Wakefield, Creation/Evolution Issue XXII, Winter 1987-1988, pp 31-32)
Another quote from Wakefield that I cannot find the source for says something like:
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When a scientist sees a mystery, he wants to solve it. When a creationist sees a mystery, he identifies it as "God" and so wants it to remain a mystery.
That is why a supernatural-based "science" would actually kill science.
As an edit, I might also point out that human magicians seek to trick people. There is no indication that a Deity would have any need to do so.
And yet creationists of all stripes eventually end up resorting to the Omphalos Argument (see my page at
No webpage found at provided URL: http://cre-ev.dwise1.net/omphalos.html). All the serious ones (including leading creationist master debaters Duane Gish and Henry Morris) end up having to explain away why all the evidence does indeed point to evolution and an old earth. Because the "unnamed" Creator created everything with a false history that would prove an old earth if you didn't already know that it was all just a trick designed to fool you.
Who's your Sky Daddy? Loki!
... to trick people. There is no indication that a Deity would have any need to do so.
And yet that is exactly what creationists end up arguing for. Dude! Get with the program already!
That is also known as "Last Thursdayism" which argues that the universe was created last Thursday with all the evidence for it having existed long before that, including our own obviously false personal memories, being complete fabrications that never ever happened.
Of course, that is very hotly challenged by the Last Wednesdayists while the Last Tuesdayists know for a fact that both of the other parties are completely wrong.
Which of those three churches do you belong to in your service of your trickster god?
Ask yourself what it is about belief in general that you find so distasteful and threatening.
Unlike yourself, I have absolutely no problem with belief in general. Rather, the problem that I have is with ass wipes who want to force their own gross ignorance and arrogance on others, especially when they seek to destroy education and/or to dictate oppressive laws in the service of their own particular false interpretations of what their imaginary god wants.
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