And so do I. The notion of "faith" plays in many arenas. It's just that I have meant for my comments to be limited to one narrow arena.
And I agree with Hank. I think. I just wanted to rephrase one statement, using the point that faith-based religions aren't amenable to ultimate proof by scientific methods. A person who seeks the ability to perform a scientific "proof" for his religion, does not have a faith-based religion. A person who holds a faith-based religion isn't going to be persuaded away by science. If one is swayed away, i.e., lost faith, then one no longer holds the religion.
You are free to disagree, of course.
Hank Well you do agree with me, or at least I agree with you.