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Darwinian evolutionary theory roughly proposes the following:
(1) The earth is very old( around 4.5 billion years old(the ancient earth thesis))

(2) Life has progressed from relatively simple to relatively complex forms . (progress thesis)

(3) Descent with modification: the enormous diversity of the contemporary living world has come about by way of off-spring differing, ordinarily in small and subtle ways, from their parents. (Descent thesis)

(4) Life originated at only one place on earth, all subsequent life being related by descent to those original living creatures.(the common ancestry thesis)

(5) There is a naturalistic mechanism driving this process of descent with modification: the main driver is natural selection operating on random genetic mutation, although some other processes are also proposed.

(1) &(2) & (3) & (4) & (5) does not imply naturalism. That there are natural processes is also compatible with theism.

To answer your question:
<<How does it call cognitive faculties to question when evolution is demonstrated natural phenomena?>>

Roughly speaking:

(0) Under materialism and naturalism (M&N), the neurophysical properties are the one´s involved in causing behavior ( not semantic content properties),and behavior is then selected for extinction or survival by Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms. Truth is a property of a semantic content, thus truth and falsehood (along with semantic content properties) do not have a part in the selective process, if materialism and naturalism were the case.

(1). Given (0) the probability for any belief consisting of neurophysical properties and semantic true (false) content properties is at best 0,5. Under M&N The probability of an individual´s cognitive capacities forming 100 true beliefs is (0,5)^100= 7 x 10 -31. In short, those who accept Naturalistic materialism (M&N) and Evolution, should expect highly unreliable belief semantic content forming cognitive capacities.