Religious groups have apologised to the world, when they've been wrong. Slavery, the Holocaust, all kinds of shit.
I want you to seriously consider this, for a second: One day, some day, the methods of science become sophisticated or merely different enough to tell us that certain actions, words, sounds, and extremely small events can, when placed in the correct combinations and/or concentrations, have an emergent effect on the reality around us. Not only that, but these things feed into larger and larger events and settings of concepts, which make this Kind of thing more and more easily done.
Spells, prayers, meditation, focus, and will-work... Work. Would the "scientific community" apologise for the years of derision and scorn heaped on believers and practicioners? I only ask, because I have never seen a large public admitance of wrongness from said "SC."
In what could be considered an admirable trait, the tendency is to take the new, "right" conception of reality, and replace the old one. Simple. But certain things seem like they would... need some acknowledgement of previous wrongness.
Granted this is a vast and heavily-laden conditional question, but I think it's one worth asking. If we could "prove" Magic's reality, one day, or, more accurately, if Science accidentally proved Magic, independently, would Science apologise?
I don't know, because I'm not Science. But I would like to hope that Science would.
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