is faith if God a senseless leap in the dark, blind obedience?

This is purely my opinion, what follows, so I'll state that upfront. Religion was created in a time when people required answers. They had no way of knowing how we got here, what we were doing, or any of the other questions that people wonder about throughout history. Religion answered it for them. How did we get here? God. Where are we going when we die? God. What made the world? God. It was a failsafe answer. Then science started catching up. Unfortunately at first, science directly contradicted much of what religion relied on. Christianity is famous for holding back science by imprisoning or silencing those who spoke out about something that differed with their beliefs. Christianity stated that the earth was the center of the universe, and the sun revolved around the earth. Science proved it false. So, christianity's way of dealing with that was to silence those who said it. Christianity said God made humans intact in the form we are now. Scientists found evidence to back the theory of evolution. And christianity fights it at every turn. Now that science has answers for many of the questions that prompted God to be created in the first place, religion is taking a backseat. In the last few years, the atheist, agnostic and non believers have grown tremendously. It appears that as more people speak out with non beliefs, others are feeling more at ease and more comfortable with also sharing their doubts and lack of belief. Where a few hundred years ago, women who pronounced they didn't believe would simpy have been burned as witches. Aside from being atheist, I'm quite anti-religious. I'm respecting of a persons individual beliefs, but I'm against orgnized religion, simply based on the premise involved. A group that orders that it's believers each feel the same and think the same and believe the same, leaving no room for creative thought or free thought. It seems completely naive to believe that a god who endowed people with free will intended for his creations to forgo their use.

No. If it was blind obedience everyone would believe in the same exact thing. People of the same religion believe in different things. Look how many denomonations of Christianity there are. Evolution is just as much a "senseless leap in the dark" as anything else. Faith takes something stronger.