welcome back to the dabate bill,if a guest might be permitted to say so.
you are sounding very authoritative about that 14 billion years and the measurements[?] used to arrive at that conclusion ,but unless that is your area of expertise, i suspect you are relying on what you have been told is the case.
admittedly,i am doing the same,and am trusting that the reasons given are valid.even supposing you are very versed in the specific discipline there are others who interprete the data differently,be they evolutionist or creationist, or something inbetween.
i am not convinced that to ask why there should be a God,and be eternal is a valid objection to a theistic presuppossition.
if he were not so [ie eternal and sufficiently powerful],it would indeed just keep pushing the problem further back.granted,just because scripture says so dont make it so - as far as the atheist at least,is concerned.however i suggest that even leaving aside the bible the backward search for a cause must stop somewhere and the God [whose description is in the bible] does fit the bill,bill!
i do not accept either your inference that soch a faith position inhibits further investigation.science progressed very well under a biblical worldview.who was it said he was "thinking Gods thoughts after him"?
so what is the atheist left with?.conjectering backwards ,never arriving at an answer because God is sidelined as a matter of course.
of course there is the other faith position,that is impossible to know,and so oftened expressed by steve,-that science is steadily closing in................