His tentative position is taken on the basis of the objective empirical scientific evidence that he genuinely believes to exist plus parsimony.
It can certainly be wrong. But How can that be faith?
I dunno, man, but you're crazy!
my response would be the same as it was:
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But I suppose if he's in limbo and hasn't actually taken a position on who designed the designer, then he might not actually be in a position of faith... I dunno.
But the idea that you can prove that a particular belief must be faith based rather than derived from poor reasoning or poor evidence or whatever is just silly.
That's what I said...
But its not really about the "motivation for a belief" but "this entity has these properties that prevent it from having true evidence for it therefore we'd have to rely on faith to accept it".