Penn & Teller debunk Equestrian magic, it would seem.
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... Scientific method fail. Penn and Teller fail. Fic fail.
Not really impressive, sorry.
Where do I even...?
This whole story fails on this one key aspect. And it's probably not because of what you think. I need to ask you the question: Where did "atheism" ever play a role in this story before you mentioned it? Really what this sounds like is you have a personal beef with skepticism and possibly atheism and have used this story as a soapbox for that.
Rationality and skepticism really are nothing more than asking for evidence before jumping to conclusions. At no point did your versions of Penn & Teller do this. And that bit on the Libertarian stuff is never done at one of their shows. I've been to see them more than once and their act is to entertain, not spout their own political or social beliefs to the audience. That's what the show was about until they ran out of topics and had to start to manufacture certain things.
And I still don't see how atheism fits into your story. It's just there at the end because Penn and Teller are atheists? Does this also mean that Pinkie Pie is also an atheist? Where was any of this established?
if you want to make a trollfic, that's all well and good but usually there's a need to rustle jimmies before writing it. If that was your goal then you went about it all wrong.
Oh this fic.
There's no "debunking" going on. It could have been funny had they actually debunked certain things but all they did was come up with alternate ways of showing how magic could be accomplished. That's not debunking. That's just showing another way it could be done. All it would take is a unicorn to show them that their magic is for real and there you go.
And you misunderstand what Bullshit! was all about. It's not about debunking, at least not by the end of the show. It was about exposing certain things as not necessarily being true but also to show you the other side of things as it were.
What you have here, is nothing more than a poorly thought out story with Penn & Teller shoehorned in. You could have literally turned these guys into Flim & Flam and the story would not have suffered for it. You could have taken out the libertarian screed in the middle and it would have been the same had you left it in. And what 4018015 said about the atheism bit at the end makes sense. How was that ever an issue in the story? You might as well have turned them into communists or Satanists at the end for all the effect it had.