If I were an atheist, I would beg, borrow, and steal so that I could get the most pleasure from my hopefully expected 80 years. If I were a believer in a creator and life after death I would attempt to earn a position in the afterlife by following a moral code that was thought to impress the creator. If I believe in Jesus, I would obey, not out of duty, but because of love and the joy of being forgiven.
Either way, we were not there when the world was formed and could spend the rest of our lives throwing scientific terms but at the end of the day, we would still have to choose what we wanted to believe.
There was once a group of the smartest people on earth who would defend to the death that the world was flat.
There was once a group of the smartest people on earth who believed the earth was the center of the universe.
Today, we still have a group of “the smartest people on earth who think they have all the answers. As individuals, we find a group that supports our belief, from aliens, creation-evolution, cancer treatments, etc… and join with them using their version of the facts. We put our faith in their facts because we have a genuine desire to believe them. Unfortunately, if we look hard, we can always find someone who has evidence to disprove everyone else.
What we chose to believe is all faith. We have faith in our history book even though they were based on someone’s opinion. We believe science books as fact, only to find the fact dispelled and changed a few years later.
We, as a human race, have accomplished truly great things but we still don’t know what’s at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean, we still can’t fix world hunger, or find a cure for the common cold.