On believing things you cannot prove

Engineers are taught to distrust anything that can't be falsified. Faith, religious or otherwise, asks us to hold beliefs that resist that test. I've come to think both habits live in the same person, and they should.

Engineers are taught to distrust anything that can’t be falsified.

The falsification habit

It is a discipline, not a worldview. Treating it as the latter eats things it should not.

What faith is, narrowly

Not certainty. Commitment in the absence of certainty.

Two ways of knowing

Both real, both lived in the same person, both worth keeping.

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