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O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

Hamlet:

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I do think it’s very odd, though, to think a stage magician would possess magical powers. Presumably there would have to be two classes of stage magicians, then: one class that deceives people with illusions and another that simply uses actual magical powers. It would be much harder to do the work of the former!

82 percent of those surveyed believed in God

79 percent believed in miracles

75 percent in heaven

72 percent believed that Jesus is God or the Son of God.

42 percent of those surveyed said they believed in Darwin’s theory

35 percent of the respondents believed in UFOs and 31 percent in witches.