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

[Doubting Thomas]

You know, why would God create the entire universe in the first place? Instead of wasting all that time & effort creating the universe and planet earth, then creating all the plants & animals, then creating humans with free will just so you can get pissed off at most of them, and then creating hell to send all the people who pissed you off to, then have to destroy the entire world in a final, apocalyptic battle between the forces of good and evil, why not just create Heaven as a happy place and all the good, righteous people who would have ended up there anyway and be done with it? No need for a global flood, no need for a hell, no need to create silly rules for people to follow and then get pissed off when they don't (even though you knew they wouldn't). No need for a blood sacrifice of your only son, no need for a final battle between your son Jesus and Satan since you wouldn't create Satan to begin with.

Like I've said before, God always does things far more convoluted and complicated than necessary.