> I'm curious, how can you be a "big believer" in something that is entirely made up with absolutely no evidence of any sort to back it up?
7,100,000,000 people seem to find it quite easy [0] (although I'm not one of them)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations
And how do you mean, dirty hacks. Our fundamental physics nowadays is quite elegant, I'd say, and still we have many questions still to be answered and much deeper to delve till we hit the "bare metal". We've only been in the universe-figuring-out business for real for about 200 years after all!