Free Floyd Landis

The verdict of guilty came down this weekend! A 2-1 vote by the cycling federation to strip Floyd Landis of his 2006 Tour De France yellow jersey. He maintains his innocence just like Tyler Hamilton, just like Lance and I want to believe. What is it about faith that in the face of fact seems so astounding? Is it because the humans handling the science are flawed? Is it because we are cynical about science because it so often is a moving target...even the dissenting vote in the Landis case pointed to the flawed procedures and the unlikely ability botched scientific process leading to a accurate result. Faith stands in face of all of this...it rests on hope in the face of flawed science. It seeks prove by trust rather than prove in order to trust. Both the men who ride and the scientists who chase them are flawed. The motive to dope is to win...the motive to find dopers is to expose them. Cyclists dope, that cannot be denied, but is it possible that because they do that when one does something unbeleivable that he doped? Is it possible that science got it wrong? Is it wrong in the face of the science to believe?