If it can't be proven, aside from some ethereal concept of belief, then it's functionally a fiction. Isn't faith just a decision to ignore a lack of evidence, no matter how sincere it might be?
[It's likely unclear how much of this is L engaging in the game, and how much he sincerely believes what he's positing. If it's the latter, he sure did spend a lot of time believing, without solid evidence, that Light Yagami was Kira... but he's never exactly claimed that he wasn't a hypocrite.]
Science couldn't explain the notebook, but we saw the Shinigami with our own eyes. We observed a direct link between a name written, and a heartbeat cut short. I would compare it to not knowing exactly how a gun works, but seeing the gun, witnessing someone shot, and understanding at least that a bullet entered their body and caused damage and bleeding. It's not a complete picture on a micro level, but it's usually enough to draw a complete conclusion, for the purposes of a detective who is interested in the crime on a macro level.
In any case. I think it's fair to say that things are beyond science, or bigger than science, which is only a record of humanity's ability to observe and understand the universe. Eventually, a telescope and a microscope will reach their limits, but that doesn't mean that nothing exists beyond those limits. They're being pushed continuously as innovation progresses; we pushed it ourselves, by making contact with a god of death and questioning her.
[As disquieting as that entire experience was, and as much as it shook his view of the universe before Aefenglom shook it further, he's in awe of what it was and represented. And to his credit, he doesn't claim to understand more than what little he does on that front.]
If I don't know how a gun works, and see the gun, witness a person shot, and the damage caused by the bullet, the situation has not fundamentally changed... but my understanding of it will be affected if I don't make room in my mind for a necessary sequence of events that set the bullet in motion, beginning with the will of a human being.
Rem was tight-lipped about so much. But there's a marked difference, isn't there? When Shinigami use the notebook, they'd have no reason to write elaborate causes of death, such as the apparent will of the human being... but Kira took advantage of it, purely to throw me off. The reactive demonstration of ego was all the proof I needed to know that Kira was human, and the self-important placement of ego in faith is evidence, to me, that it's every bit as much of a human invention.
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[It's likely unclear how much of this is L engaging in the game, and how much he sincerely believes what he's positing. If it's the latter, he sure did spend a lot of time believing, without solid evidence, that Light Yagami was Kira... but he's never exactly claimed that he wasn't a hypocrite.]
Science couldn't explain the notebook, but we saw the Shinigami with our own eyes. We observed a direct link between a name written, and a heartbeat cut short. I would compare it to not knowing exactly how a gun works, but seeing the gun, witnessing someone shot, and understanding at least that a bullet entered their body and caused damage and bleeding. It's not a complete picture on a micro level, but it's usually enough to draw a complete conclusion, for the purposes of a detective who is interested in the crime on a macro level.
In any case. I think it's fair to say that things are beyond science, or bigger than science, which is only a record of humanity's ability to observe and understand the universe. Eventually, a telescope and a microscope will reach their limits, but that doesn't mean that nothing exists beyond those limits. They're being pushed continuously as innovation progresses; we pushed it ourselves, by making contact with a god of death and questioning her.
[As disquieting as that entire experience was, and as much as it shook his view of the universe before Aefenglom shook it further, he's in awe of what it was and represented. And to his credit, he doesn't claim to understand more than what little he does on that front.]
If I don't know how a gun works, and see the gun, witness a person shot, and the damage caused by the bullet, the situation has not fundamentally changed... but my understanding of it will be affected if I don't make room in my mind for a necessary sequence of events that set the bullet in motion, beginning with the will of a human being.
Rem was tight-lipped about so much. But there's a marked difference, isn't there? When Shinigami use the notebook, they'd have no reason to write elaborate causes of death, such as the apparent will of the human being... but Kira took advantage of it, purely to throw me off. The reactive demonstration of ego was all the proof I needed to know that Kira was human, and the self-important placement of ego in faith is evidence, to me, that it's every bit as much of a human invention.