"I do not think that any Christian faith can be accepted as true if it requires us not to believe something very established science shows to be true."
This is an unfortunately common belief among people of faith. It is incorrect because it puts the understanding of men above faith in God.
Early in His ministry, Christ asked an uneducated Peter who He was, and Peter replied, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." All the secular and philosophical leaders of his time denied that claim, and even tried to use their logic to show that Jesus was a fraud. Jesus taught Peter "Blessed art thou... for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven." Peter had a Source of knowledge far greater than his own reason or the simple understanding of other men. The doubting Thomas was reprimanded for requiring visual evidence before he would believe in Christ's resurrection: "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
Our time is no different. A worldwide epidemic of pride has caused us to greatly overestimate our own understanding. The distance between the collective understanding of all men and the understanding of our all-knowing God is indescribably great. Why then would we toss aside His teachings in favor of worldly logic?
As a loving Father, God wants me to reason for myself. But like a worthy child, when God tells me what is true, I must be willing to act against even my own reason when necessary, because I trust my Father's wisdom more than my own.
God saved Abraham from being sacrificed on an altar by his own father. He later commanded Abraham to sacrifice his own son on an altar. If we believe our own logic should trump faith in God, we will never have the faith that Abraham had.