Is believing in magic terrible?

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Something cannot exist without there being some evidence of it somewhere. Proof of that existence requires conclusive evidence.

Your right, but can you think of something that you can definitively say is "unnatural", with no possibility of existing, even without evidence?

I actually have a thread asking the question.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt185009.html

Common fallacy. There is no such thing as proof of non-existence. Only existence can be proven.

Science has not disproven magic since it is in the mind.

Can existence really be proven?

The person making a negative claim cannot logically prove nonexistence. And here's why: to know that a X does not exist would require a perfect knowledge of all things (omniscience). To attain this knowledge would require simultaneous access to all parts of the world and beyond (omnipresence). Therefore, to be certain of the claim that X does not exist one would have to possess abilities that are non-existent. Obviously, mankind's limited nature precludes these special abilities. The claim that X does not exist is therefore unjustifiable. As logician Mortimer Adler has pointed out, the attempt to prove a universal negative is a self- defeating proposition. These claims are "worldwide existential negatives." They are only a small class of all possible negatives. They cannot be established by direct observation because no single human observer can cover the whole earth at one time in order to declare by personal authority that any “X” doesn't exist.