Daylia, I do understand what you are saying. You don't see your belief as something that can be held up to the measure of science. You believe it, so it is valid for you, and does not need proofs or arguments that others come up with.

I still think it is amazing how strong the emotional tie to belief is, but it is not the first time I have seen it, and not even the most extreme example. I know people who have given all their life savings to gurus they believed in, allowed their children to be abused, deferred having children or gave their children up because of their spiritual following of the guru's commands, spent fortunes on psychic readers, given up education and careers to be the unpaid labor of their gurus and even committed suicide for their non-scientific beliefs. We have only to see the planes of 9/11 and the fields of Jonestown to understand how strong belief is in motivating people and how completely opposed to logic people can become when they have a strong belief.