Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25521424-20161104171118/@comment-25521424-20161104203808

Professor Ambrius wrote: The fact that the MCU has tried to tie magic and science together as one and the same has always bothered me. I think the best way to go about defining it is to try to keep the definition wide and open but make note of the fact that there are some types of magic that are the high degree of science humans do not fully understand or have a more solid foundation in science which can be explained or reasoned by human standards. At the contrary, for me the fact that MCU had tried to tie magic and science was never a big deal, since it is pretty common in the fantastic literature to mix science and magic, and sometimes the line between the two is very blurry. For example, in the Chtulhu Mythos the dreadful entities created by H.P. Lovecraft can be both considered as hellish demons and powerful aliens, provided with powerful cosmic powers that can hardly by both science and magic.

What "Doctor Strange", and "Agents of SHIELD" recently, do very well is to explain that some mystical source of power can be analized with scientific methods, but never fully understood.