RespectfulIy, I don’t think it does, and I’m a monotheist. It takes no faith to disregard any notion of the Divine, it takes no “stepping out of the comfort zone” of the material, the seen, but it does take faith and courage to believe in the unseen. And I’m not saying the existence of God is incompatible with a reasonable understanding of the universe, just that it cannot be encapsulated by it. Through reason you can make a regression until the beginning of the universe, but after that it’s all faith.
Faith is not restricted to believing in things unseen. Faith can be believing in something even when the empirical evidence and logic aren’t strong enough to make it likely. This applies both to the existence of a higher being and the presumption that all the matter, energy, and order of the universe appeared from nothing.
RespectfulIy, I don’t think it does, and I’m a monotheist. It takes no faith to disregard any notion of the Divine, it takes no “stepping out of the comfort zone” of the material, the seen, but it does take faith and courage to believe in the unseen. And I’m not saying the existence of God is incompatible with a reasonable understanding of the universe, just that it cannot be encapsulated by it. Through reason you can make a regression until the beginning of the universe, but after that it’s all faith.
Faith is not restricted to believing in things unseen. Faith can be believing in something even when the empirical evidence and logic aren’t strong enough to make it likely. This applies both to the existence of a higher being and the presumption that all the matter, energy, and order of the universe appeared from nothing.