If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

We are all made up of star stuff.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.