But experts say faith in the courts is built on such appearances.
But in Alabama, black Christians use the label, and experts think faith organizers were able to motivate such voters by urging them to reclaim their own religious values in the public square.
A coalition of immigrant rights activists, policy experts and faith leaders gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to protest a bill that would significantly slash legal immigration.
If foreigners were finally to lose faith, experts said, they would seek to sell their American debt, the dollar would tumble and the cost of the bailout would increase.
But for other Baptists and experts on the faith, a central aim of the gathering seems to be to create a theological and political counterweight to the Southern Baptist Convention, which many of the groups that plan to attend have left.
"The question for me," said Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Delaware Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, "is, Do we have enough time to do this right?" Short of an intelligence breakthrough, that decision may ultimately depend on something ranging between an educated guess and blind faith, experts told Congress in hearings this week.
Other experts have more faith in the data used: "The fossil record is accurate," says vertebrate paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the American Museum of Natural History.
Directed by Guy Reid, the film combines stunning footage of our planet from outer space, along with interviews with environmental experts, thinkers and faith leaders.
In 2011, after a prominent security and anti-corruption expert was killed by motorcycle hitmen, Honduras banned motorcycle passengers all together.While he admits that motorcycle crime is a formidable problem in Argentina and the region, Juan Belikow, an Argentine security expert, has little faith in Mr Scioli's new rule.
Progressives had an unrealistic faith in experts to guide social progress, Hayward argues.
