Level 2 chaos, risk communication, and faith
In communities which value reason and evidence, atheism is the norm. The core reason seems the rejection of faith. There is no evidence of God and there more plausible theories for why the world is as it is (e.g. evolutionary theory, Big Bang). Yet, theists remind each other that it is important to believe anyway, to have faith.
Faith is an odd concept in the paradigm of rationality and truth-seeking. It seems the opposite of the most common definition of knowledge: well-justified belief. But, faith has been dismissed too quickly; it still …