9th December 2005, 4:49 PM
I have heard that faith is blind while trust is earned based on past verifiable experience. So in the case of a car, it's trust because past experience shows cars don't simply burst into flames.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)