Science would claim that universal forces and matter exist, and came into existence, by means independent of any conscious or intelligent cause. That the origin of all things has arisen from essentially "dead" Nothingness.
Magic presents the exact opposite claim. That all universal forces and matter exist, and came into existence, as an act of conscious will and volition by an all-encompassing intelligent cause that chose to create them.
Science claims that universal forces and matter exist in a state that cannot be influenced or altered by conscious will or emotion (absent physical equipment/machines). Magic holds the exact opposite view, stating that emotion and conscious will are able to manipulate matter and energy fields without need of external machinery or instrumentation.
What Science and Magic share is the inescapable need, for the sake of their legitimacy, to explain the origin of their existence. The origin of Existence itself. The eternal Chicken or the Egg dilemma. For which the ultimate answer must be something simply existed.
It is at this moment, one must choose to embrace one of two beliefs. Either that which first existed was inherently "lifeless" and lacked any consciousness and will, or it was conscious and self directing. There are no other options.
Applying Occham's Razor, the simpler answer is that Existence itself is inherently conscious. Self aware. The alternative belief requires an immense series of ideological constructs just to get to a point where it is no longer patently absurd to argue a "dead" existence would even be capable of eventually generating anything "alive".
This is the part no atheist ever has, or will be able to, answered. WHERE did the proto-matter of the Big Bang come from? The compressional force? Atheistic/scientific argument eventually runs out of cause-effect lineage when you force the explanation back far enough. Their ultimate answer is... "we don't know that part yet".
Magic presents the exact opposite claim. That all universal forces and matter exist, and came into existence, as an act of conscious will and volition by an all-encompassing intelligent cause that chose to create them.
Science claims that universal forces and matter exist in a state that cannot be influenced or altered by conscious will or emotion (absent physical equipment/machines). Magic holds the exact opposite view, stating that emotion and conscious will are able to manipulate matter and energy fields without need of external machinery or instrumentation.
What Science and Magic share is the inescapable need, for the sake of their legitimacy, to explain the origin of their existence. The origin of Existence itself. The eternal Chicken or the Egg dilemma. For which the ultimate answer must be something simply existed.
It is at this moment, one must choose to embrace one of two beliefs. Either that which first existed was inherently "lifeless" and lacked any consciousness and will, or it was conscious and self directing. There are no other options.
Applying Occham's Razor, the simpler answer is that Existence itself is inherently conscious. Self aware. The alternative belief requires an immense series of ideological constructs just to get to a point where it is no longer patently absurd to argue a "dead" existence would even be capable of eventually generating anything "alive".
This is the part no atheist ever has, or will be able to, answered. WHERE did the proto-matter of the Big Bang come from? The compressional force? Atheistic/scientific argument eventually runs out of cause-effect lineage when you force the explanation back far enough. Their ultimate answer is... "we don't know that part yet".