I don't know about blind faith, my education in the 50's and 60's, taught it as theory. It taught it as being thought by scientists to be likely, but still in the category of theory. I've always thought that the theory of evolution made sense, but in my mind that does not rule out ID, whether by divinity or other entity.
Although some will draw from TOE the conclusion that life is meaningless, and other unsavory conclusions, I doubt that to be a majority opinion of its adherents.
It would be interesting to see if the "meaningless, purposeless, non-created" universe is propounded by the majority of evolutionists or not. By evolutionists I don't mean Joe Sixpack who believes in the TOE but the scientists and academicians who actually teach, write about and publicize it.