Zeonix said:
Or the feeling that something just isn't right. Or the feeling that there is something we should be doing other than working for our entire lives.
I'm not going with the Big Bang because it sounds too ridiculous. We know very little about our solar system and even less about our universe so, to me, saying that something went boom and thus the universe was created sounds weird.
There's a lot of evidence supporting the big bang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
Also, the fact that the vast majority (in fact,
everything except the members of the Local Group/Virgo Supercluster, our supercluster of galaxies) is redshifted--meaning the light has become 'bent' as it reached us, meaning the source of the light has been constantly traveling away from us. And the farther out you look (mostly by fixing a telescope in a spot of space you think is 'black' and leaving it on long-exposure, you can reveal much more distant, faint things) things become much more red-shifted. You can tell how far away something is (or more literally,
was when the light you've received was sent), and the farthest object away detected to this date was about 13.7 billion light-years away, plus or minus anywhere from two hundred million to one billion years, which is how old we think the Universe is--13.5-15 billion years old.
The fact that everything is moving away from each other, (the Universe is expanding) is strong evidence for the Big Bang. If everything is expanding rapidly.. go back in time, and it reverses--everything contracts. Where does it end up? A single point--which was the origin of the bing bang, the singularity.
There are other theories, or additions to the Big Bang Theory--the second most 'well publicized' theory is the Big Bang/Big Crunch theory, the idea that there is enough mass in the Universe to gravitationally stop the expansion of the universe, reverse it, and contract back into the singularity the big bang occured from, and thus repeat in a neverending cycle.
There are more theories, such as the bubble universe theory which postulates that our universe was a 'bubble' or 'bud' that grew off another universe and in turn will spawn more. (A good deal more complicated than how I'm explaining it, but how much do you really care?)
The "big bang" theory makes the most sense. But please note that it doesn't imply one way or another whether a higher power had anything to do with making it. Science can only give us some of the answers at this point. Who created the infinitely dense point--the singularity? Nobody knows. Maybe "God" created it, and from that spawned forth the entire universe. I don't know about the other religions, but Judeo-Christian creationism isn't incompatible with modern scientific creation theories if you don't take the first testament literally.