[BuckeyeForever]

“Your definition of “faith” remains self-devised. Faith rarely rests upon “no evidence.” Such faith is typically qualified as “blind.””

I suggest you read the Christian existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard, who over a couple hundred years ago, essentially coined the term “leap of faith.” In a nutshell, he concluded that (1) religion, and Christianity in particular, are irrational, but (2) nevertheless advocated believing in both anyway on “faith.” He was smart enough at least to recognize (1) even if he was being silly in (2).

[Fester Chugabrew]

Why should one accept Soren Kierkegaard as the ultimate authority on objective reality? While he may have attributed the phrase “leap of faith” in particular to the Christian religion, it can be applied as well to many fields in the practice of science. I repeat: faith is not typically “blind.”