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What science can tell us is that all the observable universe dates back to around 13.8 billion years ago, and commenced in a burp when the matter/energy/spacetime we can see originated. But from what?

Civility is at heart being honest and kind.  Civility is not failing to call out ignorance, or hiding one's deep convictions, but how those are presented in public.

Everywhere. Now in most of the places on Earth it can still get you dangerously in trouble

I'm a Stranger in a Strange Land in many ways, not just the religious angle.

Why do most atheists ask annoyingly hard questions like, 'if God created man then who created God?,' the moment someone reveals that they're Christian?

I can't claim to know whether every Memorial Day or Veterans Day observance excludes non-believers from the official observance when religious invocations are done, but it is fair to say we aren't taken note of generally.

If we take the "throughout the universe" part seriously, since the only life we know of is here, the rest of the universe is just stars and apparently lots of planets.  Do any of those appear to be "designed"?  Not that I know of, nor do we find even design advocates going out of their way to point to some weirdly located gas giant orbiting a small star as a herald of divine planet making.