"Assuming that that is true in any meaningful way(it isnt)"
Your opinion.
"you beg the question: since when do fundamentalist christians require proof for anything?"
What? I don't understand. "require proof for anything?" I require proof for many things, thats how I got into creationism in the first place. The evolution proof wasn't there.
"Isnt just believing what everyone else you know believes and gives you the collective warm and fuzzies enough?"
If I belived what everyone else believes I wouldn't be a creationist.