It's what they believe that's important
Please note, that, despite the best efforts of my mind to convince me otherwise, I recognise that nothing I say in this article is true. So if I slip up by inferring otherwise please forgive me, I’m doing my best not to be human.
As someone who isn’t a person with faith I often gaze with perplexity and astonishment at people who are. It must be a wonderful thing to be able to surrender to something greater than yourself, and to believe in the presence of that being without the need for any evidence. You’ll probably be aware of the battle currently being waged in the US, and more quietly but still strongly in the UK, between science and the theory of intelligent design - the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. "I’m not about to dive into that argument, but reading about it recently made me realise that what may lie at the root of the differences between those people for whom faith is valid and those for whom it isn’t, also has a vital impact on the way we conduct therapy.
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