I am walking, talking proof of that.

Several non-contradictory concepts:

1) There is inadequate proof for the existence a divine being or beings which control reality &/or this universe. There is inadequate proof for such a being or beings not existing either, so honesty requires an agnostic position from a purely intellectual standpoint.

2) Some people experience a phenomenon called faith. Faith requires no proof. It's a non-rational way of relating to mystery. So faith, though requiring a suspension of disbelief, is not a mark of inferior intelligence. It's not a mark of superiority either.

3) Our physiology as humans restricts our abilities to observe and to reason. We are also in the awkward position of knowing we can't know everything (if we're honest), but not knowing what we can't know.

4) Many people experience things known in certain traditions as "the weird". Those who have faith ascribe these experiences to a particular cause in which they have faith. Often, they join an organized group of people, called a religion, who have codified rituals and a common mythology that explains their experiences. Those who doubt are content to leave the experiences in the range of the unknown, or possibly of functions of the unconscious, which is also a great and mysterious space of which we know little.

5) Religions with a broad enough appeal and a deep enough mythology will eventually produce literary, mystical and ethical schools that can attract agnostics and atheists, because those schools present a way to relate to others on a basis beyond materialism, but without a literalist belief in divine or superior creatures, or their mythology.

5) Faith neither enhances nor inhibits our ability for wonder, awe or reverence in the face of our universe, our science, and ourselves.