" 'I think you've just defined faith, and you appear to have defined it as something totally insulated from the world of reality.'

Rather, you have defined scientifically-detectable reality as the only reality. Which, as I said above, you cannot do via science. You believe this independent of scientific evidence, for "science" is a scientific entity."

I fail to see where I did this. Also, I think you're ringfencing science far too much, possibly in an effort to shoot at it all the more easily. Science is not robotic thought executed by robots. It bleeds and becomes a bit less pure, just like the rest of us, and that's what makes it a great human endeavour as opposed to just a great endeavour.