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That's more archaic 19th century nonsense, since it doesn't define what the ambigious term "magic" is to begin with, neither does it "supernatural" - in the sense that thoughts, ideas or mental concepts, such as the very mathematical axioms upon which dated theories, such as those of Bacon's natural sciences are based on to begin with, one could easily assert that thoughts are "supernatural"A familiar tactic of the religious extremists is to announce their feelings are hurt when their arguments for magic and supernaturalism are met with glaring light of scrutiny.
Thoughts aren't part of the "natural world", the faith-based axioms which those theories or approximations are based on to begin with, are not only fundamentally contradictory, but themselves are not a part of the "natural world".I should advise that links to fundamentalist creation ministries masquerading as “science” are useless for a meaningful discussion of the natural world.
I'm honestly thankful that the archaic 19th century natural sciences and their theories and the dated mathematical approximations which they're based on to begin with, not held to by simple people and propagandists in the media because they're "true" in any inherent sense, but simply because they've been around for quite a while and stood the test of time, or simply "make sense" to some people in a very limited and anti-intellectual way which is "convenient" rather than true in any ultimate sense to begin with, akin to archaic forms of conservatism or Toryism.
It's highly probable that new sciences such as computer science and those spawned from the Information age will render those archaic sciences and their hilariously dated and naïve axioms and propositions obsolete except to the serially and severely archaic, holding to them in the same way a traditionalist Catholic incapable of deeper or non-ridged thinking, or having any worldview of approximation of reality which exists within the confines of his favorite propaganda media network, marketed to the level of a 6th grade reading level and indoctrination thereof - would to his dying and archaic faith - much as social media is the archaic, dinosaur media on TV or radio, soon to go the way of Blockbuster video rentals.
The internet is, thankfully, where "irreligion", in the archaic 19th century sense as described above, and the misinformation, lack of education, and 6th grade reading and literacy levels naturally associated with it, has come to die, perhaps likely and possibly for good, much as the very nations and cultural aspects thereof which depend on such archaism and the ignorance of its collective masses, no more educated, literate, or capable of rational though devoid of indoctrination than the average sports or Nascar fan, will come to die as well, having no where left to go in the real world, or the new information economy and its emerging sciences, but to hide in their sheltered little bubbles and echochamber, unable to grasp truth and it's emerging complexities, as opposed to clining to the archaic myths and fables with the legitimacy of the dying natural sciences and Bacon's method as a whole are predicated on for their false and superstitious legimacy to begin with, at least in Britian and America primarily, as opposed to the rest of the world, its economies, and its institutions; meaning that being totally blind and obvious to perhaps 90% of the real world as it is more or less a perquisite for having childish faith in the naïve fables and superstitions associated with such a decepit and utterly nonsensical worldview to begin with.
Most being so stupid or poorly educated, that explaining the basic principles and precepts of reductionism, and the fallacies thereof, such as equating two things as identical merely on the basis of a shared or miniscule similarity or trait, which could be done with any two things made from matter and energy, all other similarities or differences be damned.
Nor even understanding the meaning of contexts and the arbitrations required for the meaning of the various taxonomies or approximations, such as zoology, in which every species and be identified, compared, conflated, or contrasted on the basis of shared taxonomies, much as every member of the animal kingdom itself could be conflated or contrasted with other beings or constructs of matter and energy to begin with, such as rocks.
Simplistic statements and folk wisdom such as "people are apes", are no more 'true or false' than "people are primates", "people are animals", "people are molecules, atoms, matter and energy" - yet even such miniscule facts and logic such as this are lost on the simpler and more-anti-intellectual and anti-aesthetic variety of people, to whom they merely provide some mythical assurance or sense of identity, devoid of higher reason, logic, creativity, and so forth.
Just simple little slogans and mantras for simple, 19th century people and relics of a dead or dying day and age altogether, good riddance, says the rest of the world and the thinking men and women contained within it, and comprising of it.
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