What's the difference between having "faith" and blanking your mind to reality?

Question

The big bang is a scientific theory because it fits all the evidence we've collected, but whether it's true or not it has absolutely no effect on me in any possible way, and I wouldn't be surprised if scientists didn't come up with a different idea tomorrow.

Willingness to accept new evidence isn't faith, it's reason.

Answer 1

There's a difference?

Answer 2

A professor of religious studies and a teacher of mine, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, made a point of making a distinction between "faith" and "belief." Not everyone would agree, but I think the basic principle is sound:

"Faith" is a trusting willingness to be open to the truth. Healthy faith, in other words, is a kind of open-mindedness.

"Belief" can have a different quality, and turn into close-mindedness.

Although I do feel it's possible for there to be healthy belief, as well, especially when it is a matter of the heart rather than the intellect ... as is suggested in the etymological ties between the word "belief" and the word "belove."
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Answer 3

considering the "big bang" is no closer to being proven since they found out that the universe is expanding ( a fact that was revealed to Muhammad in the Quran 1400 years ago (51:47)), this would mean that you have "faith"(belief that is not based on proof) in the "big bang"

Answer 4

I dont have Christian "Faith". I believe in Science and reality, I just leave the possibility open for more.

Answer 5

Well... having faith is believing in something bigger than us.
Blanking your mind to society is throwing out petitions against people who don't think the way you do.

Answer 6

One mans reality is another mans faith.

Answer 7

Very little.

Answer 8

None.

Answer 9

same thing