No, it does not. That’s exactly where you’re wrong.
I believe that there’s a black hole in the center of the Milky Way. I don’t know enough about astrophysics to deeply analyze and understand all the evidence for myself. I can’t check all the math, I don’t have access to all the telescopes used to collect the relevant data to personally make sure that they were properly calibrated and I don’t understand the signal processing that was done on that data well enough to veto it myself. But I do know that other people have that knowledge and access to the equipment, and I understand and trust in the scientific method and peer review processes that led to that conclusion. And I understand the simplified explanations that were given to me about gravitation and so on that support the finding, and they are compatible with the rest of what I was taught. I believe in it, with good reason. It is not a blind belief. But it is a belief.
Now, if I believed without any evidence that three thousand years ago, before people knew what schizophrenia was, some sheepherder was somehow granted knowledge of the future by a mysterious force claiming to have created the Universe, and from there believed in said claim, that would be very blind indeed. That’s faith. It’s completely different.
No, it does not. That’s exactly where you’re wrong.
I believe that there’s a black hole in the center of the Milky Way. I don’t know enough about astrophysics to deeply analyze and understand all the evidence for myself. I can’t check all the math, I don’t have access to all the telescopes used to collect the relevant data to personally make sure that they were properly calibrated and I don’t understand the signal processing that was done on that data well enough to veto it myself. But I do know that other people have that knowledge and access to the equipment, and I understand and trust in the scientific method and peer review processes that led to that conclusion. And I understand the simplified explanations that were given to me about gravitation and so on that support the finding, and they are compatible with the rest of what I was taught. I believe in it, with good reason. It is not a blind belief. But it is a belief.
Now, if I believed without any evidence that three thousand years ago, before people knew what schizophrenia was, some sheepherder was somehow granted knowledge of the future by a mysterious force claiming to have created the Universe, and from there believed in said claim, that would be very blind indeed. That’s faith. It’s completely different.