Magic and Science

Have you read "Wicked"? It's not really relevant except for the fact that they explain the difference as magic being a force that creates and science being a force that takes apart. I thought it was an interesting way of looking at it.

Magic is an attempt to understand why, science is an attempt to understand how. Superstition is funny in baseball movies. My point is, magic is an internal art that drives understanding of why things exist and why they are. Your attempts to change the world via the usage of will is still a search for the eternal why. Why do we exist, why is there suffering, why does my team never win the world series. Science tries to answer how. How was the earth formed, how did the universe begin, how did we get so many varieties of animal and plant life. Different view points trying to grapple fundamental characteristics of reality.

same thing, I think. only science is that which tools have been invented that can measure, and Magic, that hasn't happened yet. might make you laugh. Summer Solstice I normally camp out. later one year when I was trying to fold my tent, the wind kept lifting one end and twisting it, and making my life tricky. so, having had enough, I Shouted "WILL YOU JUST BEHAVE!" the wind came up again, in such a way my tent folded straight down the middle, then fell to the ground, leaving me to fold it up undisturbed by playful breezes. the neighbour who witnessed this looked a bit gobsmacked. hehe

I think "magic" is simply created out of science, but as people didn't understand how it worked they believed it to be magic rather than science. In example breathing fire by simply spitting a burnable substance into a flame, if you don't know what's happening you might easily think the person has some sort of magical powers enabling to breath life into an existing flame. Put a bit of the story telling behind it and eventually the flame is going to be left out and the person just spit fire. Throwing fireballs, same story. Spray gas into your hand and apply fire and you will have fire coming from your hands without hurting you anything if done right, a bit of story telling over it and it can easily get to forming magic in his hand.