Learner doesn't think this is 'magic'.
I don't think this is magic.
You're trying to make words mean different things than what they mean, so you can pretend that theism's central problem ("instead of looking for a real answer we'll attribute it to spirits/magic") is science's problem.
The definition of magic is "the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces". A mysterious, outside-of-nature spirit breathing life into a lump of clay is by definition magic.
You're likely going to want to say (again) that the spirit in question is natural. But to be natural it would have to be a feature of nature, not an alleged maker of nature that is transcendent to nature and its laws (ie, supernatural).
Where does Wiploc get the idea that theists appeal to magic?
It's what the whole theism vs atheism discussion is about. Persons who rely on intuited, ancient, magical notions (God did it) versus persons who realize that the theist's magical being is a muddleheaded explanation for anything.
Magic would be the sort of spooky, unexplained, spontaneous, 'abiogenesis' of the gaps which still baffles science to this very day.
No. Just because there isn't a complete theory doesn't mean scientists are appealing to mysterious forces. But this twist on words and truth is typical of creationists because they repeatedly make an appeal from ignorance: scientists don't know so therefore magic-riddled metaphysical shit made up by ancient ignoramuses must be true.
In all cases where a well-demonstrated explanation has been found for phenomena, it's been a natural explanation with no immaterial spirits involved. This is what's credible and reasonable to continue expecting. To point at areas where the search is still ongoing and proclaim "so scientists fail! therefore my magical answer is more credible!" is superstitious persons resisting learning because they want to stay safe inside their little bubble of belief.
Yeah, a pocketwatch is obviously intentionally designed. Which is exactly why it's distinct from evolved nature that clearly has a lot of chance elements involved in it. This has been discussed thoroughly before. You, as necessary to maintain the comfort of being stuck inside your bubble, keep repeating the fallacious thinking. And it's not even a matter of atheism versus theism, but of reason versus intuitive magical thinking.