If the evolutionary process is guided and determined by selection, as you state, then there is a clear implication that there is a guiding hand, rather than a blind watchmaker or no watchmaker at all. Guidance and determination imply an actor. If there are observable "laws" in nature that guide the evolutionary process, there is implied a lawgiver. Without guidance, one is left with random chance, the concept that, given a very large number of monkeys, chained to a very large number of computers, one of the monkeys will at some point type the Shakespearian play,
King Lear. The trouble is that, in view of the time limits imposed by the Big Bang theory, the odds against random chance eventuating in the universe and species that we know today are insuperable.
As for evolution being an "historical fact," by no means is it an "historical fact" on the order of Lee surrendering to Grant in 1865 or the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Belief in evolution does not require a disbelief in God. Belief in God does not require a disbelief of evolution.
Being a YEC requires disbelief in the entire base of scientific knowledge.