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Originally Posted by Sedecrem
You seem to talk of belief and unbelief as both areas of faith. Faith relies on belief, science is based on logic, evidence and reasoning, there is nothing faithful about it.
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Surely it follows that you are placing faith in logic. What if logic has some flaw that we are simply too limited (as humans) to realise? For the purposes of this argument, you have faith that logic is the only way to truth.
We all exercise faith at some point. When you sit on a chair, you don't think about it - you simply have faith that it will support you. Of course, logic is involved too. It is a chair, from my experience other chairs have supported me in the past, it follows that this chair is likely to support me. Etc.
Can you scientifically prove that your significant other loves you? Sure, you may look for evidence, but to some extent you have to trust that they do. That involves faith. Or would you argue that love is a construct and due to its intangibility does not exist?
It seems to me that you are viewing the world through the eyes of logic the same way a theist might view the world through the eyes of faith. He/she thinks that you are missing the point by only seeing things through logic and not with faith, and you think he/she is missing the point by only seeing things through faith and not through logic.