I agree with Hillary Clinton's skull being chock full of miniature devils but I don't agree that my trusting timber is not faith as defined here.

We cannot divorce faith from its object its always faith in something and thats why I clarified the point.

If you're looking for irrefutable proof of anything before you put your trust in it then you'd be leading quite a sheltered life. In fact nothing can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt not God and certainly not a Godless evolution. Even if Evolution could be proven it would not disprove the existence of God. I believe in a creator, I presume you believe in a process that creates life? IE. There is something in matter that tends to arrange itself into an orderly and functional form... For which you have no proof. I mean you cannot prove that its matter doing it to itself and not God doing it to matter so you'd have to at least concur that we both believe without evidence.

I agree though that we Christians or those of other deistic religions do take a leap of faith to believe in God without evidence. I would not call it ignorant though. I would call it choosing an option, and for me it was choosing the option that made the most sense.

I have had numerous examples of God's faithfulness but none that you could not re-butt saying "that was just coincidence" but when I have coincidence after coincidence in my life pointing towards a loving God then I choose to believe my instincts which tell me to believe

The title lacks detail, but I'm going to presume it means Faith in God or a higher power.

As a builder every day I'm faced with faith decisions, do I stand on that timber? Is it secure? so I investigate it and find that it seems secure. I stand on it because I have faith in it.

Sometimes I put my faith in timber that is not secure and a painful lesson results.

When I say I have Faith in God it means I've been in numerous situations where I've had to trust him and he has not failed me. I now believe that when I trust him he will come through for me and that he will for everyone that has faith in him.

If I then after repeated lessons of the faithfulness of God refuse to put my faith in him then the reverse is true isn't it?

Lack of faith is ignorance

In fact if anyone can look at the world around them in its infinite complexity far more than that of the most intricate machine or powerful computer and say there is no design behind that then they prove themselves ignorant and Faith right.