Ghostly Girl

Actually, Clueless, Gardening Anecdotes are easily proved to be fact, or not, by any Gardener who is curious enough to want to use anecdotal methods in growing, propagating, companion planting etc, by either success or failure.

Which tells us that we as humble Humans are only at the bottom of the Mountain of Learning. It's only in the last 100 hundred years that Science has stumbled from Myths to a minutely growing pace of gathering evidence, proving theories and practice. We are not at the stage where we can say that we can understand in any depth the workings of most subjects. That to me is the great supporting base of Science, an acknowledgement that we are only at the starting gate of knowledge, that we don't know everything and what we might know about Life, the Universe [of which we can only see an infinitesimal portion], etc, could be completely wrong or disproved in part. That is the strength of Science that fact that we know we don't understand everything but our nature drives us to keep trying using logic, application of theory, tests and at each stage learn more by evidence and not beliefs.

Actually, for me, Logic is always there at the beginning as it's logic that has made me questions things and want to find "the what, the where, and the how"...........that and good old curiousity!! We don't have to understand a thing completely to acknowledge that it exists and is a fact...and not magic. If that were true Science would never got past the medieval ages where Religion controlled most "knowledge" and was quite happy to use the myth of "magic" to give their Priests an image of authority.

If we knew and understodd everything at this stage of Human development, now that would be magic.........but at the moment it's only myth. The more we know the more questions we have and the less we understand due to the questions leading us onto new territory.

 

"Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never harm me."

 

Believe me, it is!!!!

 

I can see the logic of trying to scientifically understanding a term for things that are viewed as supernatural by those of various beliefs who are content for those things to remain unexplained. To some giving a name to something unexplained, such as "Magic", is comforting and gives them hope that there are other things than reality.
Unfortunately, it acted as a brake to knowledge during the last 500 years and would have worked more dramatically if if hadn't been for individuals who used logic and curiousity to question the standard magic and myths.

 

To be honest, I don't think that's true. If you had questioned the people studying controversial/banned subjects centuries ago they would have told you that it was because their logic told them that it wasn't Magic.
You have to remember Magic was viewed in a different light in days gone by and was used to give people and organisations a mystical unearthly power. Galileo Galilei proposed and proved that the Sun didn't revolve around the Earth but just the opposite and was opposed by the Church and those who believed in Magic. Galileo studied things and didn't think them to be Magic just because he didn't understand them. He used logic and intelligence to query things that others were happy to use the term "Magic" in order to protect their own beliefs and powers. He, and others, even in those days connected the term "Magic" to a desire to suppress the advancement of knowledge. If you want to use the term "Magic" for everything you/humanity doesn't understand that's understandable as giving a label to something not understood is a comfort..........but it doesn't make it true.[/QUOTE]