belief is an interesting thing. one can have blind-belief (which is akin to a belief without evidence) which is often based upon someone else's purported belief. in this case, the believer is simply believing a person (or a book or slogan, etc.).
"you are either with us or you are against us!"
-cool sounding slogan, bad belief
"this car is you, my man!" -used car salesman
passionate salesman, bad belief
and then there is this thing called science, which is actually a non-belief. 'truth' (in research) is determined at the 95th percentile, so if something were to happen more than 95% of the time, we can expect it to happen (under the same conditions) again.
scientific research goes a step or two further, seeking replication (does it happen again and again) and meta-analysis (multiple studies, researching the same phenomena) or triangulation (using two different perspective points to better determine truth, or a quantitative & qualitative study (which uses cold, hard mathematics plus the thick, rich, juicy musings of subjects who have opinions.
it could be said that science doesn't believe at all... it simply holds true what happens 95% of the time or more, and it begets "further study."
"i believe" (as book 129) explores this thing we refer to as 'belief'.
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