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RE: Is your religious belief based on evidence or faith?
Everything we believe starts with a certain amount of evidence and then, when we get close enough, we take a leap of faith over any remaining uncertainty.
When I jump out of a plane with a parachute, I'm combining the evidence I got from prior training with the faith I have in the person who packed my parachute.
This is a great example and a good one to discuss. Another way of looking at it is that you have an evidence-based belief that you have (say) a 99.99% chance of being fine, based on what you know about other parachutes rates of not opening, and then you calculate you accept that risk. That's very different from believing (without evidence) that there is a 100% chance this parachute is fine.