Science is useful in establishing many truths, but it can by no means verify everything. Where certainty cannot be established, faith has always been required—and all of life has its uncertainties. Does the one you care for love you back with equal devotion? You may believe—based on their words and actions—that they do, but you will never be able to empirically prove their level of devotion beyond all doubt.
It’s just not true that some live their lives entirely by faith and others entirely by “scientific” proof. Even a scientist must take it on faith that matter will keep behaving in the future as it has in the past—because it is not humanly possible to test (and therefore confirm) every present and future instance of that behavior.
And, as our video demonstrates, even historical phenomena that are widely accepted to have occurred based on scientific evidence, are actually still doubted by some. Bottom line: The scientific method is one way of “knowing,” and is really good at explaining or proving some things. But not all things.
“I like talking with my friends, exploring our doubts together. It’s part of taking ownership of our own beliefs. Last night, I kept wondering, do some people live by faith, and other people by facts? Or maybe it’s like, there’s a gap between what we can possibly know, and what we can’t…and what we do in that gap is real faith.”