Not defensive at all. Revolted by ignorance would be far more accurate.
I was just pointing out that a lot of science requires faith of what others have taught us.
No. That's a misuse of the term "faith." Faith is belief in the absence of evidence or logical argument. Science is the opposite. Any scientific proposition can be tested. Which is quite unlike creationism and ID, I should add.
No - faith is belief in what someone else tells you. What have you personally discovered about the theory of evolution? How many excavations have you performed in say, China or Utah or Turkey? How many fossils have you discovered? How many species have you named?