As I come to the end of my first semester at university, I find myself a little at odds with the one scientific unit that I studied.
Though many people would have you believe that psychology is a borderline pseudo-science, there was a subject within the course that heavily stresses the importance of empirical evidence, and only really accepting things as fact when there is grounded, testable, falsifiable (yet still correct) proof.
Which is all very true: you wouldn't find me living exclusively off herbal remedies, or visiting a homeopath over my doctor.
But the blind denial that some of these scientists have is simply frightening.
I've realised I'm not a very scientific person.
The whole 'if science can't prove it then it doesn't exist' outlook just doesn't sit well with my world outlook.
There are some fanatics in the world who have committed some amazing atrocities through blind faith, and in the name of religion, and it's given the scientific community a bit of an ego, in my opinion.
I very much value the research and knowledge we have today, but the cold, factual view of our world such knowledge has given us can be quite disillusioning at the best of times.
There's no more mysticism, no more unexplainable.
People don't 'believe' anymore: they simply 'know'.
I have my own beliefs though, about things that exist in our world, which we will never be able to explain.
Science would tell me I am illogical, and that there is a rational explanation for everything I believe. But sometimes, I don't think I really want to know. As someone once said to me recently, "What's wrong with living in a little bit of ignorance? It helps me sleep better at night."
The miracle of life itself is explained away by evolution and biology.
Now, I'm certainly not denying evolution.
But I'm not so opposed to the idea that maybe it didn't completely happen by chance: the idea that somewhere out there is a force more empirical than science itself.
You may think me a fool for having faith in my magic, but the way I see it, I have the best of both world: faith in knowledge, and knowledge of faith.
"You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just because you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle; which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic." - Bill Compton, True Blood
