Evolutionary theory is as much a religion as Christianity is... both require faith to understand the unseen.
This is a nonsense. Science is built on observations - if you can't demonstrate something occurred, then it's not accepted. Faith doesn't enter into it - that's just your attempt to pull evolutionary theory to the same evidentiary bar as religious belief.
What is the most galling is this premise that evolution is scientific fact (I know, only theories) that cannot be questioned.
It can be questioned, and continually is. The debate around evolutionary biology has always been, and remains, intense.
However, the basic validity of evolution by natural selection is such an established fact - underpinned by such a weight of concordant lines of evidence - that questioning its underlying validity is on the same level as arguing against a spherical earth, heliocentrism or the existence of black holes.
I find the usurping of evolutionary science in every level of academia over creation science to be a deliberate attack on God.
I find this belief disappointing and unconnected with reality, but unsurprising.
Evolutionary biology is the reigning paradigm to explain the diversity and history of life on earth. It is held as such regardless of religious views. Evolution makes no reference to religious beliefs, indeed it cares not for them. It is no more a "deliberate attack on God", than it is a deliberate attack on the Rainbow Serpent, Ahura Mazda or Mbombo.
Ask Dawkins or Degrasse their opinions of faith and you will find mockery to the extreme.
Ridiculous ideas exist to be ridiculed. Bad ideas exist to be destroyed.
It's an echo chamber mentality that doesn't allow reasoned discussion and even sees any opposition as bigoted, racist, phobic in some way or another, even though these beliefs make up the minority opinion in society... at least for the moment.
Turn around is fair play. Having lived in the US in the early 2000s, I was gobsmacked at how far to the right the country was generally speaking, and how much of an amplifier of fear the right leaning news outlets were.
Just as evolution was at one time the minority position among academics, through the successive push for creationism and God to removed from our schools, it has claimed defacto eminence through it's campaign of subversion and exclusion.
Almost all scientific theories start out as a minority position - the best recent example is plate tectonics. This was a minority position, pushed by a vocal few in the early 1900s. It didn't become scientific consensus until the mid 1960s.
What changed this? Evidence. Strong, well researched evidence from painstaking research involving thousands of geologists over the course of decades. The same can be said for evolution via natural selection - it has been established as a fact through the work of 100,000s of scientists and researchers over the course of the last 160 odd years.
The only thing that will overturn evolution is another naturalistic theory (because science is necessarily limited to methodological naturalism) that is better able to explain what we observe in nature AND better able to make useful predictions.
It wont be replaced by ID or creationism, as these are religious paradigms which attempt to cover themselves in a veneer of scientific credibility. There are triumphs of willful denial and magical thinking over the hard facts of reality.