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Pedantic rant, but I hate people saying they "believe" in science. Science is not a matter of belief. It's the realm of the empirical.
Leave belief to religion and knowledge to science. Mixing the two turns out bad every time.
But you do have to believe though. If you are just a brain in a jar, then all your empirical evidences are just illusions. At the very least you have to have faith that that's not the case.
Not knowing the answer to something isn't a belief problem, it's an ignorance problem.
For millenia we were ignorant regarding the relationship between the sun and the earth. That didn't make cosmology a belief system. We were just wrong.
Faith is not the source of science.
You are not getting what I was saying, let me put it this way, how do you know this isn't just all a dream you will one day wake up from, and find out that the real real world is run by wizards and dragons?
That's a gap in knowledge, not a matter of faith.