You're applying a modern secular definition of an english word to non-english ancient Biblical manuscripts.
While faith means belief in God and acceptance of His revelation, as one would expect, the meaning of the word faith in scripture must be understood contextually in its original semantic as in the Bible it is always linked directly to truth. For the inspired authors of scripture, faith is an act of the intellect assenting to revealed truth aligning with correspondence.
For example, Jesus perfectly corresponds to the Father (John 1:18); He said to Philip, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). So Jesus corresponded to God in His character and His actions, and in this sense, persons can be said to be true, or express the truth. The apostles were eye witnesses to this correspondence and wrote about it in this manner. Their "faith" in Christ was directly linked to factual truth with emperical and observational correspondence.
The most common Hebrew root employed to express Israel’s faith in God is ’mn, of which the basic meaning is firmness, certainty, reliability, and trustworthiness.
From this root are derived the adjective ’e¯mûn (faithful: 2 Sm 20.19; trustworthy: Prv 13.17), the nouns ’e˘mûnâ [steadiness: Ex 17.12; security: Ps 36(37).3; fidelity, faithfulness: 1 Sm 26.23; Hb 2.4, and often predicated of God, as in Dt 32.4; Ps 35(36).6; etc.] and ’e˘met, for original ’ement [trustworthiness: Ex 18.21; Jos 2.12; constancy, fidelity, faithfulness: Gn 24.27, 49; Is 38.18–19; Ps 24(25).10; 39(40).11–12; etc.; truth, reality: Dt 22.20; Jer 9.4; Is 59.14–15], etc...
In the New Testament period, it's important to understand that classical Greek seldom employed these terms in a religious sense except with respect to pagan pantheons. In the New Testament; however, the actual usage, context, and meaning of faith aligns to the Hebrew meaning of faith. This is why in the first three Gospels faith often signifies confidence in the same manner it does in ancient Hebrew.
In the New Testament, as in the Old Testament, faith in God is in the context of a real encounter with God. In the New Testament, to believe in Christ or "have faith" in Him means for the Christian to encounter God through Jesus Christ His Son.
So while faith is defined by the author of Hebrews as "the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that are not seen" they are real, known, and experienceable. These words are commonly understood in the sense that faith gives the Christian the assurance that his spiritual hopes will find fulfillment and the conviction that the divine revelations that surpass knowledge derived from the senses are true.
In the Bible, the ancient words and their semantics for faith NEVER mean what you've posted and bolded below. In fact, just the opposite.
And as I stated earlier:
http://christianchat.com/christian-...sident-atheist-any-questions.html#post1497798
World English Dictionary
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[TD="class: td1, colspan: 2"]faith (feɪθ)[/TD]
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[TD="class: td2, colspan: 2"]— n[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]strong or unshakeable belief in something, esp without proof or evidence[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]a specific system of religious beliefs: the Jewish faith[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]Christianity trust in God and in his actions and promises[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]a conviction of the truth of certain doctrines of religion, esp when this is not based on reason[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]complete confidence or trust in a person, remedy, etc[/TD]
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[TD="class: td3n2"]any set of firmly held principles or beliefs[/TD]
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I will use this definition. So no I do not have faith in evolution, I believe it is a credible theory for the diversity of biological life based on evidence.