At risk of sounding like I have a Phil Plait obsession, I had a bit of a laugh when reading this comment on his blog:

As a skeptic, I hesitate to use some words when describing such things, but it’s hard to avoid the use of the word "magical". Of course it isn’t really magical: it’s the natural world at work, with millions of years of time and many of the more vicious red-in-tooth-and-claw aspects invisible to us.

I have this vision of skeptics surrounding the Bad Astronomer, getting ready to pounce and pin him down for a skeptical intervention, because he said the word "magical".

My personal opinion is that when you get to the stage that you're adding caveats whenever you say the word "magical", it's time to chill a little and ask if you're going a little overboard with the whole "I'm a critical thinker" performance. It's lesson #1 in why the general public largely perceive 'skeptics' as anal retentive geeks intent on making the world dull and unexciting.