I've decided that I do believe in God.  The reason why I do is because it helps answer my one of my biggest questions:  What was here before the Big Bang? 

I dove a little into quantum mechanics and the little problem of creating something from nothing.  Like one scientist stated that he has no problem with what happened 1 X 10^-43 seconds after the Big Bang, I don't either. What really bothers him and me is how the heck do you create something from zero energy and zero mass?  Yeah, Quantum Mechanics' state that there is no such thing as zero energy and zero mass, stuff comes and goes.  Yep, now present day it may be true; however 14.6 billion years ago???  

This is where I need a "Leap of Faith"--that something can be created (or at least did once) from nothing.  Is it possible that God and the universe was created at the same time (God and the universe being the same thing)?  After the Big Bang,  everything was chaotic and God could have been developing at the same time.  Some 10 Billion years later, God got it more or less right with a 3rd generation dwarf star and one of it's planets (after the failures of two others).  On this very special world, life developed from a slurry of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc and electromagnetism -  an amazing feat that I have a tremendously difficult time understanding - and finally advancing to a semi-intelligent, self aware being (more or less) who is capable of texting and driving at the same time.  This IMVHO couldn't happen just by accident; some power is at work.   

Perhaps the answer to what was there before the Big Bang is 42.  Jan