We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.