I don't have a problem with the word "faith" except when it comes to my lack of belief in deities; a lack of belief is pretty much the opposite of faith. I trust (or have confidence or, well, faith) in the fact that my roommate's puppy will get into the garbage if I don't take it out or put it up, and that the sunset is going to be absolutely beautiful every day here on the California coast. I have that confidence (faith, if you must) because it's been tested every day.
I tested prayer and the Bible and Christianity for thirty years. None of them have rung true; therefore, I don't have faith in them.
As for science, the whole point of it is the pursuit of accuracy. If science isn't accurate, why can I sit on my ergonomically-correct sofa with the mutt who looks nothing like any dog I've ever seen- but somehow I just know she's a dog- while I drink craft beer and type this message, and people ten thousand miles away will be able to read it the millisecond I hit "post reply"? Every thing and activity I just mentioned has relied on the scientific method in order to be engineered or explained.
I tested prayer and the Bible and Christianity for thirty years. None of them have rung true; therefore, I don't have faith in them.
As for science, the whole point of it is the pursuit of accuracy. If science isn't accurate, why can I sit on my ergonomically-correct sofa with the mutt who looks nothing like any dog I've ever seen- but somehow I just know she's a dog- while I drink craft beer and type this message, and people ten thousand miles away will be able to read it the millisecond I hit "post reply"? Every thing and activity I just mentioned has relied on the scientific method in order to be engineered or explained.
