2. If God didn't create the Universe where does it come from?
I do not know where the Universe came from. However, neither do the theists, hence their need to postulate that God created it. I then ask - where did God come from? The theist will retort that God does not need to be created, he just is.
Thinking rationally, this seems merely to be complicating the problem unnecessarily. I do not understand where the Universe came from so I therefore postulate the existence of something else (God) to explain the Universe which, in turn, I cannot explain. Following that argument I could end up with an infinite series of Gods, which is simply an absurd way to deal with the problem (besides which there is absolutely no evidence to support such a thesis). Why not just say that the Universe itself did not need to be created, rather than move the problem up a level? It is meaningless to concoct a rule - that everything needs a creator - and then, arbitrarily, to make God an exception to it.
If one does not understand a problem and has no information upon which to base a judgement of the problem then it is meaningless to make up a theory about it and just assume it valid until someone proves you wrong. By doing that you are pretending to know something that you do not and you lose the drive to understand the problem at hand. Surely it is better simply to admit that you do not understand the problem and try and advance your knowledge by meticulous research? Not only do you edge closer to a real understanding of the problem, but you will probably discover many interesting things in the process. This is how science and technology advances (notwithstanding Thomas Kuhn's "The structure of scientific revolutions").
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"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives - who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worth of it? There has never been a greater deed - and whoever shall be born after us, for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
