Oh but you do! Every time you go to bed you have faith the sun will rise in the morning (faith in special relativity). You have faith every time your light up the oven that your food will come out hot rather than cold (faith in the second law of thermodynamics). When you are visiting some strange new place you put faith in the mapmaker. You have faith in your doctor's diagnoses. You have faith that the "invisible hand" of the free market will put food on your table and provide you with the necessities of life at prices you can afford. And so on. We take so much of our lives on faith.

In terms of the deeper issues of life, everyone believes in something. No one can endure the stress and cares of life without faith in something that cannot ultimately be proven. The social worker has faith that he is making a difference. The parliamentarian has faith that she really can change the system. The scientist has faith that his/her explanation for some observed phenomenon is valid. Whenever an unbeliever looks to do something worthwhile, it becomes a religious quest, seeking a norm that is beyond and outside of herself. This quest is based on faith.

Atheists cannot prove there is no God. Pantheists cannot prove that everything is God. Darwinists cannot prove we had sludge for an ancestor. Each must take what he believes on faith. So ask yourself, where have I put my faith? Or, if we can take a measure of faith as given for each us, then perhaps the question that should be asked is, where have I put my hope? We may all have faith and hope that something bigger than ourselves can save us from ourselves, but we can't all be right. Truth, by definition, is exclusive.