does science require faith to progress? , page-49

faith is backed by belief, faith is the action of a person who put their belief in action.
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DrewMichael,
Yes faith is demonstrated by actions in harmony with that belief or in other words is demonstrated by being faithful to what one believes.
(James 2:26) Indeed, just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
This highlights the need to base your beliefs on reliable evidence. Take for example the beliefs of Japanese soldiers during WW2.

“EMPEROR HIROHITO was regarded as a living deity,” observed Japan Quarterly. The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan lists him as the 124th human descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is identified as the “chief divinity of the Shinto pantheon.”
So when Japanese soldiers were asked to sacrifice their lives for this “living deity,” they did so with astonishing zeal. There were no fiercer combatants during the second world war than Japanese devotees who fought for their god, the emperor.
Overwhelmed, however, by military forces of superior numbers, the Japanese lost the war. Less than five months afterward, on January 1, 1946, Hirohito, in a historic edict, repudiated before the nation the “false conception that the Emperor is divine.” He said that “mere legends and myths” had been responsible for this belief.
What a shock! Millions of Japanese people were deeply shaken. For over 2,600 years the emperor had been considered a deity! And now he is not a god? This man once so exalted that people would not even raise their eyes to look at him, he is not a deity? Giving up the long-held belief that the emperor was divine was not easy. Indeed, several former imperial Japanese soldiers, in a centuries-old tradition, killed themselves upon learning of the death of Hirohito.