does magic even fictionally exist?

I stopped reading eventually, so this may have already been said, and may have already been said better, but I figure I'll toss in my two cents regardless:

I feel like, in comics, often the differentiation between magic and technology (at least, on the relatively lower power levels) is that magic doesn't necessarily have to make sense.

I realize comic tech often makes little sense given the explanation we get, but it's creation and its purpose are often easy to construe. Technology serves as a solution to a problem, where as magic (or magical objects, creatures and miscellany) often seem to exist just... 'cause.

Originally posted by Creshosk
Let's try it this way.

If you were to take a flashlight into the medieval ages they'd think it was magic.

It's not that magic is an advanced science, its that the technology can appear to be magic.

Yes Creshock thats what I'm trying to say part of your argument is, but you're too busy being right to understand what I'm trying to say.

Originally posted by Deadline
I'm talking about this part of your post. Here you are saying that magic is just a highier form of science, so it's not really magic it's just more advanced.

In other words a flashlight is a highier form of science compared to medieval science.

Originally posted by Deadline
Yes Creshock thats what I'm trying to say part of your argument is, but you're too busy being right to understand what I'm trying to say.

In other words a flashlight is a highier form of science compared to medieval science.

Magic is a blanket term for things that people don't understand in order to keep from needing to think about it. People did the same thing when attributing natural phenomenon they didn't understand to deities.

Don't try and tell me what my argument is if you're going to say something that indicates you don't understand it.

A flashlight isn't really that advanced of technology.