It all started when.....
My acceptance of there being a Creator is not important, it is quite clear that there HAS to be one!
When studying the Universe (as we know it...), it becomes quite obvious that, due to past events & therefore predictability of the past, it has been scientifically accepted that the Universe is about 13.8 billion years old.
This number was derived after the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background - the afterglow from the Big Bang. This was determined by NASA & supported by the leading astrophysics centres The measurement of time, in reverse, is easily determined, but what was there before the Big Bang?
Although there are many arguements that say that the Universe works on a continual Big Bang. Those supporting this theory say that currently it's expanding but, eventually it'll recoil - with everything collapsing & becoming so tightly compressed, with ALL matter returning to three size…


What you wrote makes a lot of sense. There are questions regarding the Creation/universe that no one has the answers to. That's one of the great things about Deism I appreciate; Deism simply states the laws and designs in nature is proof there is a Designer of Nature, The Supreme Intelligence/God. That's it. Your first sentence reminded me of this insightful quote from the Deist Voltaire did "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." https://www.deism.com/post/famous-deist-voltaire