Just remember science is about what and how, when you get to stuff like why, it's philosophy. 90% of all of the ridiculous arguments that seem to happen around this subject appear due to the inability to keep these separate.

Science doesn't care about 'why' questions. It is also misleading, because it assumes that something has a purpose, which is not necessarily the case.

>It is probably the largest thing that is holding me to my faith in an a God.

How does the existence of a God explain the absence of nothingness? Infinite regression, and all of that. That is one of the things that would keep me away from a faith.

Maybe there is no "why". The world is, no reason, at least nothing we could ever understand.