i would mostly consider myself an athiest, since i dont believe in a "God", but im confused about how the universe was created, like how did everything start out?
why assume that it had to have at all? you might as well get used to the idea that there are, and will likely always be, more things to know then there are things that are known, or even thinking things like ourselves to know them. our egos may demand that we know everything, but none of us, not even all of us togather, ever do. i appologise if that seems an inadiquite answer, but that is the only rational answer that there is. we can work backwards from what we can observe of how things seem to work, even test and verify some of these conclusions. which many many people have done for a very long time. but ultimate anything tends ultimately to be ultimate speculation. we, humanity, are still infants in the nursery of our solar system, we've bearly been out of the crib of our own planet more then a relatively very few times. like infants in an house we suspect there are adults and all sorts of fascinating things going on in other rooms, but we can't yet even stand or walk reliably. there is a window we can look out of though. and see that there are other houses. these are the things that are known. and how old the rocks say our crib is. rocks that have a lot less reason to lie then people do. we can even infer from observation that some of the other houses are older then our own. though some may possibly be newer as well. we're really limited though, in how difinative answers we can come up with can be, by our still being mostly in our crib and entirely within our nursery room. =^^= .../\... oh yes, we can also invent pure speculations that "explain everything", but that is all they can ever be. when these are connected with encouraging people to want to avoid causing suffering and harm, well it is a very good thing to encourage people to avoid causing suffering and harm, because we all have to live in a world that is excactly neither more nor less screwed up then our collective thoughtlessness makes it, but these speculations that are so often attatched to that, this is a seperate thing and doing so does not make them any less speculations. =^^= .../\...
just to add something, if you were to be asking about how something can come from nothing, it's possible. everything has it's opposite.. night, day, water, fire, black, white.. the same goes with matter. matter and anti matter. scientists have supposedly proven that if you have nothing, such a strong concentration of it would have a rippling effect that would rip and produce matter and antimatter, then expanding and multiplying which would eventually produce a large amount of pressure that would cause a huge explosion... supposedly. it's something to think about.
