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Drag has decided not to discuss the quantum gravity problem, and just reassert that drag is a gravity believer.
You have a weird way of talking. For example, it's not normal to call Newton and Einstein "wrong" in their equations about gravity just because they did not happen to solve all of physics while writing them down...
at a certain point the question isn't whether a formula is "right or wrong", it's about whether what the formula says is "good enough in this situation" or whether a different formula should be chosen.
This is an important topic in physics: choose the right frame of reference, the right simplifications, the right assumptions, ... for your calculations to be as easy as possible, yet meaningful.
So i guess to "believe" in a formula is just to recognize and accept its usefulness for a purpose.