I strongly disagree with Daniel Sarewitz's suggestion that non-mathematicians must use faith to “believe” in the Higgs boson (Nature 488, 431; 2012). The particle's existence is based on hard evidence, not belief.
Evidence is why most ill people visit doctors, rather than sacrifice chickens or visit priests. If we were to abandon evidence, we would soon be in some post-modernist hell. As for faith, the rational thought that underpins science provides us with a system that works. It fosters questioning and makes risky, falsifiable predictions; religion does neither, as it demands blind acceptance of dogma.
Had science and rationality been abandoned in favour of religion, then the stoning of adulterers would be much more common and there would have been many fewer women participating in the Olympic Games. Let's be grown up, rational, accept evidence and put the fairies to bed.
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Hosken, D. Rationality: Evidence must prevail. Nature 489, 502 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489502d
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