What a interesting question you asked and I say not one I have actually seen posted before.
What is faith to me.
Well lets say that first I seperate Faith from religian.
Faith is my blind trust that thing that leads me when my logical mind is lost and cant find my way.
Faith is accepting that no matter how bad it seems this is happening for a reason and its a reason I cant yet understand right now but I may someday.
Put it this way when I was 6 months along into a pregnancy and and suddenly had to abort or die I did what needed to be done no matter how dark and painfull it was on the trust that it was for a reason.
It was for a reason to it was to be my 3rd and last child but she was lost.
3 days before that baby would have been born I found out I was carrying my now youngest little girl.
So the reason of it all...was her.
That to me is faith.
Its what i belive in I belive in the Goddess and God and I belive everything in life happens for a reason.
Its something I cant prove...but its something I know and that is comforting.
Though I agree animals dont have a religian they do have a spiritual imprint they have a life force or a spirit/soul whatever you wish to call it.
I cant prove it of course..but I KNOW.
My religian of course is Wicce' Or in simple terms most people understand I'm wiccan.
What makes our existence on earth different than any other living beings? (Please please please don't make that Adam and Eve reference. *cowers*)
There is only a few differances really.
Humans have a body that is unlike any other animal though apes come close.
Humans brains have a higher thought process.
And have religian.
But of course when we die we all get reborn human and animal alike so tehre is no differance there.
Some say Humans were created on earth to be harbingers.
Maybe its true after all we seem to be able to do little of anything except destroy.
But I dont belive that.
I belive we were put here to be happy and protect the life all of it here on earth.
Course we seem to be doing a piss poor job at both given the riseing rates of depression and polution.