Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.

[Jenny A]

i was observing that when it came to other works of antiquity, whether it be Plato, Herodotus or Homer, the author is never questioned, not so with the Bible.

Then you are just plain unobservant. The very existence of Homer is questioned by scholars. And if he existed, it is certain that The Iliad and the Odyssey were oral tradition long before they were ever written down. http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Homer/

Plato certainly existed. He is attested to by a variety of contemporary sources. His style is consistent and we can be pretty sure that the same man wrote his histories. But we don't have everything he wrote and we aren't sure that all of what is attributed to him was written by him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato

We don't have contemporary sources for Herodotus, but he does write in the first person and much of what he observes can be verified. His writings are not taken as gospel proof of what he says though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus