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Originally Posted by Zach  I obviously believe that the universe is just too complex and beautiful to have just been spontaneously made or evolved over billions of years, and was created by a higher being. |
I think about this frequently. I have problems believing in a "creator" because it adds complexity which makes the question more difficult to fully answer (if the creator created everything, then who created the creator?).
Edit: someone already stated this, I was slow articulating my thoughts and two people finished their posts in the time it took me to write mine.
I always get stuck with the concept of time, that seems to be the crux for me. If there was a beginning of time at X, what was there at 1 second before X. (This is also the mathematical proof of the non-existence of a minimal or maximal integer. I just naively applied it to time.) Currently, "nothing" does not exist anywhere in our universe, so it's hard to imagine nothing existing before time.
Perhaps the universe is eternal. This is the easiest conclusion, but not a very satisfying one.