Do you believe in magic?

[Westy]

the best one ever is the one who didnt want to go home in an XFiles episode, so he shapeshifted into a human and played baseball in the minor leagues. and scored 61 runs, a record or something.

he was cool as fuck.

[Eve Bulloch]

Haaaaa!

And Tooms I is well the best X Files episode!

[endless psych]

If you redefine 'explanation' to include something that isn't an explanation at all. This has a category of its own, known as "making shit up".

I'd define explanation as someones attempt to explain why or how something happens or works. People have more then one explanation for the how and indeed the why.

[fallen_nemesis]

can't say I do at all.

It's interesting reading about the way in ye far distant times it was used to explain things that people didn't understand though.

[djtoast]

Magic, schmagic. Last refuge of the weak-willed.

All right then, clever-clogs, how does Ben Kenobi make the Stormtrooper wave the robots on, believing they're not the droids he's looking for?

Just exactly what branch of "science" is that?

[Potatojunkie]

I'd define explanation as someones attempt to explain why or how something happens or works. People have more then one explanation for the how and indeed the why.

So if someone asked me why we've been as yet unable to detect the Higgs boson, and I replied that it was kept hidden from us by leprechauns, you'd class that as an explanation? It's pure conjecture, and addresses none of the evidence surrounding the phenomenon.

It's interesting reading about the way in ye far distant times it was used to explain things that people didn't understand though.

Place a dirty shirt or some rags in an open pot or barrel containing a few grains of wheat or some wheat bran, and in 21 days, mice will appear. There will be adult males and females present, and they will be capable of mating and reproducing more mice.

[MarkMono]

Add it to the huge pile of things for which there is no credible evidence but grinning morons will happily tell you "...but it could exist." like they're letting you in on some massive cosmic secret.

[Frankie LiDeo]

Can I replace post 28 with 'I do not', please. Bit rude.

[The_librarian]

Explanations are just stories created to help us understand how the magic works, Honest

[StuntGirl]

I'm interested in it, but i dont believe in it...although my mum swears the reason why i've been having a good couple of years is down to her castinmg spells for me and my sister, which i think is kinda sweet.

[Syxx]

Of course not.

[AbraCadaver]

Yes, I've seen/experieced too much not to.

[karbon14]

you could have predicted the people to say aye to this.......

naw, it's all bullshit

[I'm Your God Now]

Yes, I've seen/experieced too much not to.

Did someone turn you into a frog?

Critter-Five!

[AbraCadaver]

Did someone turn you into a frog?

Critter-Five!

*rolls eyes* No. Sadly turning people into frogs appears to be out of the realms of possibilty