Where did the universe and life begin if there was no God?
Well the creation myth in the book of Genesis is an obvious non-starter for Humanists. I rather like the Greek myth that says the Goddess Eurynome swam through the cosmic wastes of space, and created a serpent like trail in her wake; she gave life to this wake, called it the North Wind, and copulated with it, spawning the matter of the Universe, and most of the pantheon of Greek Gods who then take up the story where she left off. Colorful as that sounds, it is not convincing though, and generally most Humanists are happy to believe that the Universe originated in some variation of the Big Bang hypothesis. This begets the question of where did the Big Bang originate, which makes us realize that there are only two plausible answers. 1/. Matter somehow sprang out of nothing at some stage in Universal history. 2/. Some kind of material always existed (possibly through some kind of time/space anomaly) . Indeed the Greeks believed that all the matter of the Universe was already in existence,
