Ok, I was not asking the question from the perspective of utter ignorance. What I'm saying is "the magic" is deeply buried... in my opinion well beyond the ability of any human being or group of human beings to suss it out in the real time of an exigent circumstance. When you fly an Airbus, you are relying on tiny little lines of code, some written a long time ago by folks who knew little or nothing about aerodynamics or the workings of airplanes. Who knows, maybe like MS Windows, if you know the right key commands, you can pull up asteroids from the bowels of the A320 control law code. Point being, at some point, all this code, all it's flaws, all it brilliance, all its ineffability... IT ALL BECOMES MAGIC, which is pretty much precisely the same as FAITH. Even if the humans build the machines, when humans are no longer able to understand how those machines work, we are in a severe world of hurt. Granted, many of us don't appreciate that fact. Some of even argue - quite vociferously - that's not a fact.
If aviation - or for that matter science in general - has two primary operational objectives, they are likely the following: Eliminate Randomness. Ensure Redundancy/Replicability. Magic nor Faith possess even ONE of these traits.
