This has turned into a debate about whether God/gods exist and inevitably will be perceived as an attack upon the faith of believers if a naturalistic explanation if offered in a public forum.
I have no desire to change people's opinion agaisnt their will. Nor do I pretend this is possible.
However the comments of some here have been largely those of the 19th century Cosmological Arguement. "Things don't just appear from nowhere! We are too smart to believe that so there must be a god."
First it is reasonable to remove the discussion from the very first nanoseconds of 'creation" as our present understanding of the exotic physics that were involved is thus far too incomplete to support any debate upon the relative merits of one opinion over another.
That being said, the problem lays in our perception of the world around us. Science is focused on the whys and hows of the physical word and has led to a clearer understanding of the interplay of physics within phenomana once considered "miracles". We know why and how water becomes solid when cooled to 0 deg. We know why baking soda and vinager react violently. We know the process of crytalline formation that makes snowflakes. We recently discovered that proteins can be formed without DNA. There in fact is little that defys some explanation. The "mysteries" remaining are largely due to the incompleteness of the study not some mystical nature of the phenomenon. As I said the problem lays in our perceptions. We see the world as a whole rather than the result of millions of minute elementary processes.
Additionally we have the Creationist misrepresentation of the model science has given us for the formation of the universe. Your objection to supposing that the universe everything in it including us and the deep blue sea resulted from some chaotic massive moment is quite reasonable. NONE HAS EVER claimed this. The process of planet formation alone takes many millions of years. Each step of the universe's evolution took time and the natural interplay of the atoms that formed in the cosmic birth and subsequent nuclear processes in the stars. Life is presently seen on earth in such preposterously simple forms that the line between self ordering physics observed everywhere to these simple life forms is becoming very fuzzy. Evolution is, dispite rantings from the Christian far right, a fact. The study of the processes involved are called The Theory of Evolution.
Research is in order for those desiring to understand these things, "Climbing Mount Improbable" by Dawkins is excellent for example.
If anyone desires to see a supernatural hand nudging the universe to follow a predetermined course to result in this present universe at this present time, he does so not because the facts suggest it, but becase he wills it to be so for philosophical reasons. Thats just fine with me as well as to the scientific community as whole. It is the misinformation and deceipt by unscrupulous or ignorant bible literalists about science and it's objectives that has marked the battle lines between the sides.
Myself my mental makeup precludes adopting as truth anything i can't support. But not everyone (including my friends) feels this way
