Baloney and Salami! Evolution DOES tread the ground theological, by denying teleology to explain impossibilities! That is why your's is the ONLY "so called" scientific discipline that has this fight with believers. Nobody has a problem with physics, or chemistry (actual real science). Science was birthed from Christianity, it belongs to believers, we are just taking it back now.
Sorry we were asleep for 150 years and gave you the false impression that atheists could hijack what belongs to us. Without faith science is blind. It becomes nothing more than a holding pen for those that are enthralled by the lust of debate over process and tedium.
So how old is the earth?
Um, no, it wasn't. It appears that your warped view of history matches your personality. Weren't you previously known as the disease "ALS"?
Science was birthed with the resurrection of classical learning at the end of the 15th century. Prior to that the Church discouraged any delving into the workings of God's creation as being improper. One could more accurately make the claim that science was birthed from classical Greek agnosticism.