But what about science and academics? Those "intellectuals" who often proclaim Atheism, Agnosticism or some other form of not believing or having any faith? How would you know if they were telling you the truth about anything? Should you believe their "science?"
Science is grounded in the real world. First someone has to look at a situation and come up with a hypothesis about it. Then, to see if they can change the outcome or mitigate a problem caused by the situation, scientists will experiment with the variable factors within the situation until they come up with a solution. If the experiment fails, they document the outcome so that nobody repeats the failed experiment. (How many times have you prayed for something that still didn't go your way?)
If an experiment is a success, the scientists will publish the results for peer review. Their peers will recreate the experiment and based on the success of those experiments, the peer review will determine that the solution arrived at for the situation is the correct course of action.
If science is faked, it will be outed by the peers and exposed as a fraud and discredited.
Now back to the faithful. How many people do you know openly proclaim that they have faith, but don't really adhere to all of the rules of the faith to which they allegedly subscribe?
How many of them look like they're faking it? It's easy for people who don't really believe in God to say they do because they don't have the fear of going to Hell in their souls. How do you know who to believe?