For now, my answer will be short and incomplete. If God be willing, I will address the rest later...
We all take things on faith....even if these are things based on probability. How many times have you said "I'll see you later"? How do you know you or the other person will even be here later? You take on faith that you are going to be alive tomorrow....and I hope that you will be alive tomorrow and for a very long time....but if you say we don't have to take anything on faith, how about every tome you board an airplane? Do you know your pilot. How do you know he isn't drunk? Or how do you know the airplane mechanics did not forget to tighten a lug-nut?
If we did not take things in faith every day, we'd probably never have the will to even get out of our beds.
What's with everybody using pilots to prove their point
How do we know pilots are not drunk? Because there are rules and regulations in place to ensure that?! They also undergo drug and alcohol testing more regularly than the average traveller is aware.
Airplane mechanics? Erm, each aircraft has a safe life and endurance. Once the aircraft has reached its operational limit, it is scrapped. This is for the safety of the passengers. That example was poor. If an aircraft suffers from technical malfunction even though it's new - well that's normal! My computer is brand new and it restarts itself every so often...randomly! Technology breaks all the time. No surprise there.
I don't go to sleep with the faith that I'll be alive tomorrow. I go to sleep with the HOPE. If I die tomorrow, well, my time's up then. I still have the will to get out of bed and do something with my day, be it post on CEMB or go out and take my dog for a walk.
In short, Hassan said quite rightly that 'trusting' a pilot and an airline carrier is very different to placing your 'faith' in a being that, quite simply, cannot be explained. Now come on, can you honestly say "How do I know those nuts and bolts that keep the plane together exist?!"
Topic: Absurd Doubts