OK, I have a little more time now to answer the question posed by you, so I will take a stab and see if I can't answer some stuff for you.
Take away faith and use only truth. There are really only two truths we can go by in any discussion about God. Here they are: you are on the earth, and you are not God. As an atheist I think you can agree to those two truths.
Lets break those apart. You are here (on Earth). How did you get here. Simple truth is from your parents. But that can continue all the way back to the beginning of things, ultimately back to the "big bang theory"...all things had a beginning, and the theory is all matter in the universe started a singularity that snapped and is constantly expanding and that is how we are all here. Now to get here, there had to be multiple versions of life forms, RNA turned into DNA and all kinds of very complex mutations with complex proteins all driven by DNA changes (think changes that beget changes). The biochemistry and biological changes that had to happen to get you where you are today are so vastly complex and ,despite the best of science and our understanding, we still have no real idea how it all happened from beginning of life to the end organs and differentiation we have today.
OK second, you are not God. I think that is a pretty self explanatory truth. If any of us were God, I think it would also be self explanatory as well. I think it is safe to say none of us have seen God in the flesh.
So where does that get us? You are here, and you are not God. Back to the beginning.
In the end, we all have a belief system. You, a self described atheist have a belief system that says at some moment all the matter of the universe was "somewhere" and it magically exploded and that is why we are here today. If you have a different theory on this, please let me know, I am making an assumption on the theory of why you are here. based upon many conversations with atheists and scientists about this very topic. The leaps of belief (we can call it "faith" if you want or keep it at belief, but the semantics are exactly the same) you take to get where you are today are enormous. What collected all the matter of the universe all in the same space? What caused the snap and sudden expansion? How did the primordial soup create life? How did life go from unicellular to multicellular to differentiated organs, etc, etc, etc, etc.....the list of stretches beyond our current understanding are very large and despite knowing exactly how life exists, we still can not create life in a perfect modelled system with all the parts. There are so many aspects of your life that require so many leaps of faith, just to explain how you got here today, that to say "lets stick to truth" is an impossibility.
But on the other side, we have a historical record of a man, Jesus of nazareth, who claimed to be the Son of God incarnate. The prophets from thousands of years before Him gave writings (the old testament) which not only predicted His coming, how He would be born, but also how He would serve, how He would die, and then we have historical record of His resurrection and the first hand accounts of His living on earth after He was resurrected and seeing Him ascend to heaven. This is not faith, in as much as any historical record is a faith driven belief, this is historical record, well preserved and well documented over the two millennia since His death.
As part of that structure, the writings that were passed down in the Old Testament give a record of how the Earth was formed, who did the work, and more importantly the WHY. The whole Bible is about the why, with a little how, but mostly the why. Yes this structure requires some leaps of faith, the biggest one being that there is a God who cares about us individually and desires what's best for each of us. But the leaps of faith all tie into a singular WHY that is coherent, and all leads to the finality of Jesus and His purpose and mission on earth...to bring salvation of a fallen world and its people back to a loving all powerful God.
I won't get into the other religions of the world as they are not pertinent to the struggle between truth and faith. But the reality of it remains, in order to believe in the two truths each of us possess, there are stretches of faith in all directions. If we want to be really truthful, the stretches of faith are A LOT longer in your direction than in mine, but you can not realistically say that you don't hold on to some sort of faith structure even if you call it "science". I put science in parentheses there simply because the origination of the universe stuff is not real science, it is all theory with no real way to test, and most of it is the "best educated guess, since we are here, we got here somehow". I believe science can be done really well, but it can also be abused and cause a lot of doubt for people who struggle with truth. I am a physician, as such I have a science education and understand the scientific process a lot more than most. I also feel science will eventually be able to create life in a lab one day, but that will not exclude the possibility of God, since God gave the blueprint on how to create life. Kind of like the joke where scientists finally create life out of dirt, and God comes back saying, "make your own dirt and then come talk". Science and Chrisitanity do not have to be mutually exclusive. They actually fit together quite nicely and science gives the HOW and Christianity gives us the WHY behind the HOW.
I am sure there are parts of this that are not well written, so please feel free to ask questions or drive nails into my post. I am very willing to discuss.
1. Let’s take away faith and focus on truth. There are two truths: you're here, and you're not God.
Agreed. I’m here, and I’m not God. But neither of those things point to the existence of a deity. They just establish that I’m a finite being living in a physical universe—something no one is disputing.
2. So how did you get here? The Big Bang? Evolution? Those are huge leaps of faith, especially since science doesn’t really know how life began.
Actually, those aren’t leaps of faith—they’re the best explanations based on the evidence we have. The Big Bang and evolution are supported by mountains of data. Scientists admit they don’t yet know exactly how life began, but "I don’t know" is honest. It’s not the same as saying "God must’ve done it." That’s inserting an answer without evidence.
3. But how do you explain something coming from nothing? Or life from non-life? Science hasn’t proven those things, so your belief system has major holes.
Science doesn’t claim to have all the answers. But uncertainty isn’t a reason to believe anything you want. Just because we don’t fully understand the origin of the universe or life doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to insert a supernatural explanation, especially one from a specific religion with ancient texts and miracle claims.
4. Still, it seems to take more faith to believe in unguided processes than in an intelligent designer. Look how complex life is.
Complexity doesn’t prove design, it just proves that complex things exist. Evolution explains how complexity can arise naturally through gradual processes over time. It’s messy with lots of imperfect dead ends. Design would suggest perfection and purpose. But nature is full of errors, and suffering which is not expected from God the designer.
5. Okay, but we do have historical evidence: Jesus of Nazareth, the resurrection, the fulfilled prophecies. That’s not just faith—it’s documented history.
What we have are ancient texts, written decades after the events by anonymous authors, with contradictions and supernatural claims. That’s not strong historical evidence—it’s what you’d expect from mythology or legend. There’s no independent confirmation of a resurrection, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The Bible is not a neutral source.
6. But the Bible gives a coherent “why” behind existence. Science can’t do that it just tells us how.
The idea that we need a cosmic “why” is human-centered thinking. Not everything needs a purpose. The moon doesn’t exist for a reason—it just exists. Life can have meaning without a divine God. We create meaning through our relationships, our values, and the impact we have on others. We don’t need a supernatural story to give our lives worth.
7. But everyone has a belief system. You trust science. I trust God.
I trust science because it earns that trust—it makes testable predictions, corrects itself, and delivers results. Faith in God doesn’t operate that way. It asks you to believe without evidence, or in spite of contradictory evidence. That’s not the same thing.
8. Atheism takes faith.
Atheism isn’t faith at all. It’s just the lack of belief in gods due to insufficient evidence. I don’t believe in Zeus, Thor, or numerous other gods because I haven’t seen good reasons to. If that changes, I’ll reconsider. Until then, I’ll stick with evidence, logic, and openness to being wrong.
And since we are doing some thought experiments a serious question that I think demonstrates the fundamental difference between believers and non believers. What evidence would demonstrate to most believers and nonbelievers that they were wrong on the existence of God. My experience has been most believers will simply disregard any evidence that does not support the existence of God and call it a test of faith, attribute it to the devil, claim it is the fulfillment of some Biblical prophesy, etc. Most nonbelievers on the other hand can cite numerous instances of evidence that would persuade them God exists.
en.m.wikipedia.org
. Where else does something get put into motion like a heartbeat without any other factors? It all points to God 
