No...I chose to accept EVIDENCE as it presents itself. Putting faith in 'men' is a spiritual concept. You are defining what I do by your standards.
The word evidence is man-made, according to secularism. You must put faith in a man made system. You cannot get out of this as is the case with all atheists. Putting faith in men is not a spiritual concept at all. Have you ever done the exercise where someone catches you falling backwards? You have to put faith in them and you show that faith by falling backwards without any evidence that the person behind you will catch you. You will be forced to rely on methodologies set in place by men such as logic and reason to determine your risk vs reward.
It is complicated I am still learning about it....but I have already learnt enough to know it is true...and I don't rely on faith in A PERSON. Science isn't about what A PERSON says. It is tried and tested by many people. And all of them are attempting to disprove the claim to see if it stacks up. If the idea stacks up after rigorous trial and attempts to disprove it by knowledgeable people why would I tell them they are wrong? It is not faith. It is evidence.
True evidence in this regard is seeing evolution in action and being able to determine that with your own methods, independently of others. Could you have come to the conclusion of evolution by yourself? Without any outside help? No, you need the peer review process of the scientific community. You are constantly falling backwards for THEM, but not for anyone else. If God is real he would be jealous. You do not lack faith, you lack faith in gods, which forces you to have faith in something else. That's the thing about faith, it's a human trait, it's in all our genetics and it has to go someplace. It's a process of risk and reward. Faith is integral to the process of growth and evolution. As an atheist you must put faith in men. This is what I call a "faitheist." You ride off the coat tails of greater people than yourself and then criticize others for not doing the same. You are not a peer in the peer review process, but yet you do not question the methods of determining the way of which one qualifies to be part of it. This is FAITH in a man made process that has been demonstrated to show worth to the external world. Again, faith in men is NOT a spiritual concept, but explicitly a non spiritual concept.
-Sab