Howso? There is physical evidence of evolution. Also, do you know what evolution is, because it has little to do with the question?

There are so many evidences of the creation of this earth they are almost too numerous to count. From the distance from the earth to the sun, the tilt of the sun which cause the seasons of the year. The development of the body didn't evolve over eons of time but almost instantaneously. If you go by evolution the male could not have evolved at the same time as the female. Thus the male would have had to wait millions of years for the female to evolve. It would have been impossible for procreation to occurre because the male would have died before the female ever showed up. I know how you like to argue with anyone's opinion and downplay with what they say. Go have fun.

I think this is mostly true, but I'd have to disagree that it's universal. Faith is belief in something you are told without proof. While students of both secular and religious learning will be expected to take things based on faith, there *are* plenty of people out there who see things first hand and don't rely on faith. See, if you stroll down to your local university and enroll in a physics programme, you'll be expected to do your own laboratory work so that you see how these theories came into existence by recreating the experiments and seeing for yourself. That sort of learning removes faith from the equation. You'll build your own radio telescope so that you know exactly how it works. You'll make the measurements of cosmic background yourself, you'll observe distant objects yourself, you'll measure galactic rotations yourself, etc. You get to see everything for yourself, and then you can decide for yourself whatever you'd like to believe, based on your observations. If you choose to believe that the universe was created by an omnipotent being 6000 years ago, you can certainly choose to believe that, but, many people at that point choose the easier path of believing in what they have observed for themselves, which requires no faith.

Well...I have a physics degree from a real, accredited university. I'm not arguing that all things are taken on faith, but never - ever - ever - ever - have I met in my life anyone who does not believe at least dozens of things without ever having observed logically conclusive evidence for those things. But that wasn't the point of my answer at all. My point was that belief in either of two ideas mentioned in the question requires faith. Neither is certain. Neither is supported by observable evidence of a quality that allows someone to formulate a logically conclusive proof of the proposition.

Again, though, it depends on the level of conviction in the belief. Things change in science from time to time, and the level of acceptance of new theories is highly dependent upon the veracity of the evidence that the theory is useful. Ultimately, as you pointed out, the existence or not of a creator is not-at-all dependent upon the age of the universe. However... belief that the universe is only a few thousand years old is almost completely confined to a specific group of people who vehemently believe in the existence of a creator, right? Whereas those who believe that the universe is billions or more years old tend to, dare I say, just be more sensible with how they process observable evidence into presumptions. If, hypothetically, some huge discovery were made today, concerning the age of the universe, I would expect that the group who currently believe that the universe is billions of years old would be more curious about it and more interested in following through to search for evidence to correct the current model, whereas the former group of people believing in a few-thousand years-old universe would be far more prone to be apathetic (other than perhaps to use the existence of the question to criticize the scientific community). Incidentally, what was your focus at university? Mine was condensed matter. I wrote my thesis on product properties between doped magnetostrictive and piezoelectric materials.