Wow, Sydney, you seem to be the well-read fellow. You own your own Grimoire, I noticed your quote is from Amphigorey, and your avatar is a snippet of Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights". Good picks.
Anyway, now that I'm done boot-licking- I agree that literal magic should generally be left to fiction, seeing as the times have cast a harsh light on what was once thought to be mystical. Things like prisms and magnets, which were once considered magical, are now explained scientically, so to base your entire theology off of Dungeons and Dragons type stuff, especially if you're only doing it for the hip factor, is kind of dumb. However, like Danny said, there are a few things that are generally considered to be magic, but may very well have scientific merit, like telekinesis and clairvoyance. I forget where it comes from, but somebody once defined magic as "any science that is sufficiently advanced as to surpass the known laws of a people" or something very similar to that. Really, the line between science and magic is very transient, so it's hard to say anything all-encomposing on either subject. I suppose it's a matter of personel opinion. Where do you draw the border at?
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. Or shapeshifting...I could live with just that...hehe.
