”The alternative to evolution is some form of magic.”
Sorry, that is too black and white for me. Natural modification, adjustment, and adaptation to temporal changes is an essential characteristic of all creatures whether they survive for two seconds or over thousands of years. This is observable and we can replicate the phenomenon under controlled situations. That is science and it does not contradict various ideas about religious and non-religious creation beliefs/theories.
The idea that evolutionary change and beliefs are contradictory opposites may be a fun debate but is unprove-able, it is much more rational to view the ideas as complimentary..
”I am not aware of any other body of knowledge that is rejected, in its entirety, because some parts are not yet understood.”
There are very scholarly people who build schools and libraries of thought supporting the validity of major world religions. The only people that I have seen who reject the whole body of knowledge from any of those schools are the uninformed bigots who refuse to open their minds to all ways of learning about existence, and insist on only one path to knowledge, even though it may be wrought with more paradoxical contradictions than proofs.
I don’t know any rational person religious or otherwise who rejects natural adaptation as a science. There is no proof that the origin of the universe is a purely physical phenomenon void of creative force.
”I bet you can't explain magic, either.”
Magic may be explained in two ways.
1) As illusion. Magicians commonly claim that their magic is the result of performing illusive tricks aided by slight of hand, smoke and mirrors, undetectable science technology like electromagnetic devices etc, with years of practice and cunning deception.
2) As expressions of the supernatural: Some people claim to be able to perform miraculous feats like healing with the aid of unseen forces, to control natural forces due to supernatural endowment, or to acquire knowledge and wisdom without the use of sensory perceptions.
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