Faith, Belief, and Fact: a fundamental conundrum

One of the bigger gripes I have against the fundamentalists and their no-give-all-take attitude (and it's a long and hairy list, including the blowing up of buildings and the crusades against evolutionary theory and public education) is the side effect of making words like "faith" and "belief" equivalent to "unquestioning, unreasoning acceptance" in certain circles - and asserting (deliberately or accidentally) their anathema with words like "evidence" and "fact". ( Are these words mutually exclusive? )

So why do fundamentalists have such a bone to pick with fossils? ( Okay, bad pun! )

Fundamentalism 2 doesn't necessarily run into problems, but 1a definitely has issues from the literally interpreted Bible, which as we all know from Bill Hicks, doesn't exactly mention dinosaurs.