>>96105837No.
What is a god is just as much a matter of subjective perception as magic is.
The same way religion is a proxy, or a stand-in, for understanding. It can’t be helped. The ancients didn’t know what the stars were, so they interpreted them as the very gods. That’s no different from magic as a stage. A curtain. A veil. The universe is both stage and magician.
Those who want magic to be magic no matter the perspective are a religious sort of brain. “No, God is God!”. Yeah, well, even had that God existed, to the physicist He is still just a sufficiently advanced/godlike alien being, likely higher dimensional. Again, to the physicist. God wouldn’t see Himself the same way his followers do, either. He wouldn’t be accurately portrayed in the Bible. It’s a story. Faith doesn’t require truth, and never has. It’s not empirical.
Listen…
Atheists don’t like to acknowledge that a sufficiently godlike alien being can totally be worshiped as a god or something.
Theists don’t like acknowledging that their god is just a big alien and believing in gods is a variant of believing in aliens.
The theist, faith oriented outlook is still the one that doesn’t rely on hard truth—it’s not empirically scientific. It’s using words to describe, not to define. Magic is just that. The Christian sees God as “He”, “Jehovah”, “Yahweh”, “the All”, etc, and some Christian physicists interpret Him to be the living Whole of reality, or nature. God to the plain physicist is “a higher dimensional being of some kind”.
It all connects. These are just different ways of looking at the same thing. One is just empirical in its observations. The other is more artistic. Ignorance is a form of art.
