You pose a really good question. I don't think the answer is just faith. The evidence for natural selection and against a global flood like in the Noah story is so overwhelming that denying the truth requires a conspiratorial mindset.

Lots of people in faith don't do that kind of conspiracy-theory thinking. The Catholic Church runs a telescope observatory, for example, not at all uncomfortable with adding to science that explores the origins of the universe.

Most Christians outside the United States are puzzled and sometimes even startled that many American Christians actually deny evolution.

The big problem is this weird strain of literalist fundamentalism that has infected American Evangelical Christianity. It was perhaps historically not so damaging, but as science has learned more about the universe and its past, clinging to those beliefs, which is not something all Christians do, has required a conspiratorial mindset.

I see it in my own Evangelical family as highly educated people learn from early childhood that scientists are usually wrong about most if not all important matters and that many scientists are probably knowingly lying.

When you're brought up to believe the scientific establishment exists to deceive the world about important facts, you're not equipped to make good judgments about many other important facts. In that light, the Evangelical Christian affinity for Q doesn't seem just unsurprising; it seems inevitable.

And the problem isn't so much faith as it is blind and reflexive denial of reality, which more mainstream religious folks would tell you is not part of faith.