For example, almost everyone believes that the world is not a computer simulation like the Matrix, or that the laws of nature that operate today will operate the same way tomorrow. We don’t carefully reason our way to these truths. They are merely assumptions we think are true because they just appear to be true. But calling belief in these basic truths “faith” would stretch the meaning of the word beyond recognition. Theists have religious faith while atheists have confidence in truths that cannot be absolutely proven.
