nonbeliever_92
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So to qualify as magical something has to first be impossible? No wonder you haven't seen evidence then. Odion's quote about no evidence being sufficient springs to mind once again.
You want some element of magic that is quantitative, repeatable and testable? Consider the following:
Mind Control/Glamour - Hypnosis
Curses/Blessings - Nocebo/Placebo
Berserker Magic - Adrenaline rush
Now considering you have here some well known ways in which ancient magic could be made to work, you would think scientists would be overjoyed that not only have they proven magic to exist, they actually know how to employ it for themselves! Instead, what was once called magic is renamed and the method used to cast a spell no longer "counts" as evidence. Rather than measuring the means by which magic can be performed, advocates of scientific method have decided they have disproved magic.
Granted, some things ARE disproved by science, such as a god throwing lightning bolts. With magic however, scientists have exactly what they always demanded, hard, testable evidence.
I guess the main point here is semantics, none of these I would consider magic becuase they're all natural occurences, there' nothing especially amazing about them that makes them magical. they're wonderous, no doubt, but not magical. There's nothing supernatural about them.