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Originally Posted by subversion if faith really is or is not important.

If you believe that the world exists eternally, you should guess that eternal number of persons knew the TOE, so every time somebody discovers it, he/she finds out already known truth.
Even if you know the TOE, you should be careful not to “cast pearls before swine”, as humanity in whole doesn’t need the TOE, only a few individuals do, and also “a dog deserves a bone only, but not a veal”.
And what is faith and what is difference between it and fanaticism?
I myself believe that any faith based on knowledge is real faith, so normally for me a faith = a knowledge (i.e. when I know something, I have faith in it), but at the same time I can be mistaken, as well as everyone and not always notice it, since “to err is human”.
For example, when the priest repeats the word of Jesus: ’’I’m in father and father is in me”, does he really know actually what kind of action stays behind these words? He has strong faith that he does, but if you ask him to explain, you can see that the big majority of priests actually don’t know, i.e. his faith stays close to fanaticism, i.e. I’d like to say that different people can interpret any phenomenon or event differently. It depends on their intrinsic abilities. Even it happens that in a few cases some uneducated people are smarter, and some law-breakers - better psychologists practically then doctors of psychological sciences…

So, everything is relative and faith (a complex function of brain) as well, i.e. maybe it's important, but not determinative…