To say they are "absolutely equivalent" is a massive stretch.
They trust science because they drive in a car, can video chat across the world, can play games with their friends on a screen, have devices that cook for them, automatically clean for them, etc.
You don't need to verify quantum theory to understand that you have a computer in front of you.
That's not blind faith.
Nobody personally tests all claims, even professional scientists have to accept some prior claims until they have some reason to believe they're incorrect.
Trust is necessary for science to extend beyond the efforts of an individual, but trust isn't the same thing as faith.
Want to understand and test the veracity of some theories on electricity, gravity, medicine, etc, you can ! And a lot of those can be even tested at home with simple experiment. You can sometimes even find something new, or that one theory is wrong.
Want to test if god exists ? If heaven or hell exists ? If following some rules will grant you access to heaven ? You can't. There is no experiment that you can replicate that will prove any of those claims. You can try to find your own, in many way is is also scientific, but there is many religions and people have been trying to prove many of those theories for eons without any advancement.
Comparing science and the belief in scientific theories as similar to a religious faith is just wrong if you stop and think about it for more than 5 minutes.