God also does not hide ancient primitive life forms in geological strata in order to test our faith, and He does not allow the Devil to hide ancient primitive life forms in geological strata in order to fool us.
If you have faith in God, you should have faith that God created the Universe that we actually observe, that the earth is at least 4 billion years old, and the rest of the Universe over 10 billion years old, and that humans have walked the face of the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, and our ancestors were making fires and using tools over a million years ago.
That is your *belief*...and it's not provable, either way.
Plenty of scientists *believe* differantly:
http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/index.html
Do you *believe* in "global warming?" A lot of scientists do *believe*...and *some* don't *believe*. Interesting, don't you think?
That is a also a religious question. See this article below, if you don't think scientists get into "beliefs" (not neccessarily religious)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293676/posts "Are you a skeptic or a believer?" said Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, in a speech to about 100 people at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
"Essentially if whatever you are told is alleged to be supported by 'all scientists,' you don't have to understand [the issue] anymore. You simply go back to treating it as a matter of religious belief," Lindzen said. His speech was titled, "Climate Alarmism: The Misuse of 'Science'" and was sponsored by the free market George C. Marshall Institute. Lindzen is a professor at MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Once a person becomes a believer of global warming, "you never have to defend this belief except to claim that you are supported by all scientists -- except for a handful of corrupted heretics," Lindzen added.
According to Lindzen, climate "alarmists" have been trying to push the idea that there is scientific consensus on dire climate change.
"With respect to science, the assumption behind the [alarmist] consensus is science is the source of authority and that authority increases with the number of scientists [who agree.] But science is not primarily a source of authority. It is a particularly effective approach of inquiry and analysis. Skepticism is essential to science -- consensus is foreign," Lindzen said.