You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

"But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar taste sweet in the mouth. Attempts to explain these simple matters always progress into a learned lucidity, and on further analysis retire to a remote stronghold where every thing is irrational and unthinkable.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.