First, we're waiting for your staistics on scientists supporting Intelligent Design.
Second, faith is a belief in something that has no evidence or proof. How can evolution be a faith based idea when parts of it have been tested and the evidence grows day by day?
And how is evolution atheist? Evolution does not seek the origin of life, it never has. Evolution does not invalidate God. It may invalidate a fundementalist, literal orthodox God, but that does not mean it is athiestic as Diesm fully accepts evolution, as does Buddhism, and a whole list of other religions, including many protestant and catholic sects of Christanity who see genesis as metaphorical.
And it is simply easier to believe in Creation then take the time, money and effort to understand evolution. Goddidit is by far the easiest belief then understanding and running experiments in labs that takes years to grasp.