Once upon a time, we were pretty much all sure that some kind of creator invented us. I have never heard of a system of faith (though it’s possible this is just my ignorance) that does not have it’s own take on how we got here. Some of those creation myths are remarkably interesting, but that hardly changes the truth. They’re stories we told to try to know the unknowable. But we know stuff now, and those myths seem laughable.

We know, for example, that there was a big bang. Believing in the big bang is not an act of faith. It is believing in something that we may not directly see, but it is based on the best understanding of all the known information. We can come up with tests to confirm the concept, and they are time and again proving to be accurate and further cement the fact of the big bang. The amount of evidence at this point is harshly in favor of the big bang. Would it be impossible to find evidence that disproved it? Absolutely. But that evidence would have to conform to the existing evidence and provide an even clearer explanation. We don’t get dumber, we get smarter. Current work in physics tells us that there was no need for a creative force to trigger the big bang, that it was an inevitability.

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