In What Are You Putting Your Faith?

Do you have faith? Many people believe that the concept of faith only applies to religion, and is somehow opposed to science. But when you dig a little deeper, you may just find that your beliefs—whatever they are—are based in faith.Faith and science are not necessarily opposed. The science of observing how things work and creating new technologies (like smartphones and medicines, for example) has nothing at all to do with faith. But when we try to explain how life originated, and the source of its immense complexity, we enter another type of discussion. The way things are doesn’t necessarily explain how they began, and ultimately every theory of the origin of life requires a measure of faith.We can study how our ears work, or our eyes, or brain, but the more we know about these remarkable and complex systems, the more unlikely it is that they simply came to be by random processes. It has been said that putting your faith in evolution is like believing a tornado could create a 747 out