That goes both ways: Insisting that the universe was created by processes that cannot think, plan, plot, or devise is also an act of blind faith and a faith more blind than believing that God created the universe.
Nobody is insisting anything, and certainly not on blind faith.
Every question that has ever been answered that could have a factual answer has been answered by science. Everything accepted on the basis of science is accepted because of the evidence and provisionally since new evidence could arise. There is no faith here.
Every morning in all my years, the sun has arisen. (Or for the pedants, every morning the Earth has rotated such that the Sun appears to rise over the eastern horizon.) In the experience of all my acquaintances who may be older, the sun has arisen every morning. In the annals of history, no one has ever documented a time when the sun has not arisen.
Is it faith then if I assert that the sun will rise tomorrow? No. Of course not. It is evidence based that is accepted provisionally -- after all, it could be true that we about to be struck by a meteor of sufficient mass and with the appropriate angle to stop our rotation.
Every event that can be shown to have occurred and for which a cause can be ascertained has been caused by another physical event. Every state of affairs the universe has ever had has had a state of affairs which proceeded it that was physical. All of them, ever. Trillions multiplied by trillions multiplied by trillions multiplied by trillions multiplied by trillions ...
It is a reasonable expectation that the event that caused our universe to begin expanding will be discovered to be--if it can be discovered--physical and natural and not requiring divine intervention. Provisionally.
And any cause that might be called 'prior' to
that one, will be discovered to be physical. Provisionally.
No faith required.
