I believe that the universe started with a big bang.  So what was there before the big bang?  Can a big bang come from nothing?  Did someone initiate the big bang on purpose?  Or was it a random occurance?  Maybe the big bang was an unintentional but not random occurance.  The Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy says that the matter that goes into a reaction must equal the matter that comes out and that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed.  In other words there is some finite amount of matter in the universe.  There will never be more, there will never be less.  But where did the matter come from? 

The answer is there is no explanation.  Any atheist scientist who gives you some technical explanation is just guessing and is probably not really an atheist, because supporting his theory of how the universe was started he has to have faith in that theory.  Any creationist who tells you the big bang is nonsense and that god created the earth in seven days tells you this because he has faith in what he believes.  I guess that is what I am getting at:  faith in something makes that thing right to the believer.  No matter how half-cocked somebody's belief is, if they have faith in it it is their reality.

Along those same lines having a large group of people who believe the same thing does not make their beliefs any more right than anyone elses.  There can be no democracy in religion.  In matters of faith, the majority does not rule.  Everyone dictates their own faith,  At least everyone should...

So what is my faith?  I have been thinking about it a lot.  Dictating it if you will... 

It all comes back to the time before the big bang.  There was a bang and then there was all the matter in the universe:  Every proton, every neutron, every electron.  So what was there before the bang?  I believe there was something, some form of life.  A god if you will.  A god that had had lived a long life and then he died.  When he died there was an explosion, and god's atoms made the space dust and the stars and the comets and the black holes and eventually the earths of the universe.  The thesis of my faith, god is the universe and since we are all made of the same basic materials as everything else in the universe, we are god. 

It seems about as likely as anything else.