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Ep. 86: God of Science

Young Heretics

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The Real Story of Science and Magic

There was very little magic in the middle ages. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the high noon of magic. Magic tries to do it through incantations, which don't work. Science does it through empirical study, which does work. But the desire is the same. And so now in in this drama, he basically dramatizes the coming together of these two kinds of power. Because in the magical stories, of course, magic actually does work.

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