Would you not agree that supreme confidance in ones own reasoning, rationality, and access to cumulative wisdom would be akin to a belief in human wisdom as the most penultimate explanation for anything and everything? The belief is not religious in the sense of the traditional definition of religion and/or deities, but the belief could be argued to be akin to self deification of humanity in general.
In other words, I could say that I don't know everything, Stephen Hawking knows more, a roomful of scientists knows still more and, given enough time, humans should figure out everything that it is possible to figure out.
Anything that falls outside of rationality can be assumed to be false until "proven" otherwise.
The problem with this approach is that it limits belief to human wisdom.
This message has been edited by Phatboy, 08-17-2005 08:57 AM