WHY DID GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSE?

Why did God create the universe?  

When I was growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist church we were told the answer to this question without ever having to ask:  God created the universe FOR US.  God set the whole thing up so that we humans could enjoy eternal lives filled with peace and joy and worship of him.  Things didn’t work out that way, of course.  As the story goes, we proved to be feckless sinners.  In short, we humans were, well, human.

THINKING LIKE A SKEPTIC

Do atheists think differently than do those who believe in God?  I’m not talking about what the different groups believe but how they decide what they believe.