The Beginning of Time and Eventually Earth

My understanding is that around 10,000 years ago some invisible deity with super powers snapped their fingers and everything just appeared the way it is now. That seems reasonable, right?
 
Focusing just on the last few thousand years, it’s absolutely amazing and nearly unbelievable the various similarities in building structures, drawings, etc across the continents when there wasn’t global knowledge.
I think you would enjoy the book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond.
 
This topic an understanding 52! are really tough for me to grasp.
 
I don’t think our brains are advanced enough to comprehend what, how and why it happened. We can’t even comprehend the infinite expanse of it all.
 
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I don’t know how existence was created and neither does anyone else. Pretty much every theory has as much credence as the next, simply because we just don’t know. Is the story of creation in the Bible true? Probably not, but it isn’t any less implausible than everything else.

My biggest issue with the atheistic view of the creation of the universe is that it requires just as much blind faith as any religious view, if not more. I can get on board with the Big Bang and all scientific explanations until you get to how and why the laws/forces of nature (gravity, time, physics) that make our existence possible are in place. That’s where you get to the answer of “they just are and it’s completely randomly that we exist.” So you’re telling me that all these ingredients that make existence possible just happened to mix perfectly in the .00000001% chance that this could possibly happen? That takes a bigger leap of faith than to say something omnipotent created this formula to our existence and put it in place IMO.
Universe is pretty big, where does the .00000001% come from? The Earth started before life, life didn't adjust to Earth's elements it was started in them.
 

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