rules question please help

[jbuggenz1]

Currently my group is fighting some shadows. because they are incorporal creatures only magic or magic weapons can hurt them. Damage that comes from magic from a corporeal being has a 50 % chance of being ignored. Here is the debate... Our cleric is using a searing light spell our dm says that the creature gets to use the 50 % rule because the cleric is a corporeal creature. We say that unlike a wizard or sorcerer whose power comes from within a cleric is chaneling power from a god or diety not from within so doesnt his power come from an incorporal being? Shouldnt it be excluded from the 50 % rule?

[MediocreSurgeon]

No. Where the source of the magic comes from usually doesn't matter, and it still takes the Cleric to channel the diety's spell. If the Cleric isn't on the Ethereal plane or incorporeal, he/she still faces the miss chance because the spell is being channeled on an entirely differant plane of existance from the Shadow (incorporeal creatures are on the ethereal plane). The cleric should try to do at least one of the following (at least in my opinion):

1). Travel to the Ethereal plane to kick its a**
2). Simply turn/destroy/rebuke/etc it
3). Use a force effect (force effects overlap both the Material and Ethereal planes)
4). Buy a Ghost Touch weapon

I hope I helped!