To the contrary, proof simply renders faith rock solid...transforming it into certain knowledge. Faith is a strong supposition. Proof provides confirmation of that supposition. In tbe absence of definitive proof, faith is still a perfectly reasonable basis on which to stand...and will in itself spur the further search for proof to back up that faith. Without faith in something, in anything, a person is lost. You need faith in order to provide motivation. This can have to do with religion...or not. It can also have to do with anything else in life.

Proof does not deny faith, it exonerates it.

A few visionary men had faith that a heavier than air machine could be constructed and made to fly under its own power. That faith spurred them on to attempt it. Eventually they succeeded. Their faith had secured indeniable proof, and was thereby strengthened, and upon that strengthened faith they achieved extraordinary accomplishments in aviation in the next few decades of powered flight.

It is people of great faith who lead society forward in science, art, industry, religion, and every other thing worth doing.