We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

God is not described in equations.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.