Nobody knows how the universe was created, or even if it was - it might always have been.
However.
The implied premise of the ridicule thing is that religious people take it all literally. I suppose some do, but I very much doubt that includes many of the intelligent ones or ever did.
It's easy to spot the inherent problem with monotheism. In a way they have the same problem as we hardened atheists, in that they can't actually prove that no god (or no other god) exists.
I was brought up with Quakerism as I might have mentioned before. I doubt very much whether any of the Quakers I knew then, or now, have a literal belief.
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