"Faith" is not a virtue.

[Darkstar]

People are wrong all the time, correcting those mistakes is the only way to advance society. When a hypothesis in science turns out to be incorrect, this does not mean that science is wrong, but in fact that it is now right.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

But, more importantly:

Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

I think that about sums up why people rely on blind faith so much. It annoys me when theists accuse atheists of having 'faith' in science, and that being the same. Science is rigorously tested and peer reviewed, religion is most certainly not.