Where do you begin?

Well I started my quest by adding a little questioning spirit to my daily life. I was at the time taking a probabilities class and decided to randomly ask my professor what the probability of our Universe was. He shocked the whole class and said there was no chance. He went on to talk about some Anthropic Principle and how the whole universe is so perfectly balanced that when you do the math it's improbable to say the least. That made me feel like I was onto something.
That evening I went back to my place and with my thirst for knowledge still driving me I picked up some Time Life Atlas book which was a sort of overview of life on planet earth. It started off with Pangea...you know, the super continent. Where all the continents look as though they were connected at one point in history. Well I started thinking about that idea a little more and something peculiar dawned on me. If all the continents were at one point connected, then they wouldn't have been drifting apart as they do today. That would mean that there would be no shifting of the continents. That means no earthquakes. And they also taught us that mountains were caused by continental shelves buckling into one another. But if they weren't moving at all, wouldn't that mean that at one point there wouldn't have been any mountains, not even volcanos? Would there even be any Tsunami's? It was seeming to me that at one point in history the earth could have been a perfect shell with no cracks to bleed from. I was shocked with the implications of such a pristine planet. But then I remembered winter and summer. Two of the biggest destroyers of life on the planet. How could it have been perfect with those two killers. So I continued reading in this Time Life book and I couldn't believe what I saw next. They had this diagram of earth not tilted at all but spinning perfectly upright like a top circling the sun. And they went on to say what life would be like if this were the case. We would have consistent 12 hour days all year round. And there wouldn't be any seasons. The equator would be a desert and poles would frozen but there would be at least two bands of 24/7 spring happening all around the globe. But that's if the ozone was anything like it is now. Which might be unlikely considering that the earth at one point was able to cultivate such awesome amounts of plant life that it could sustain animals that were radically more massive then anything we see today. I later discovered that archaeologist's have found Gingko leaf fossils two feet in diameter as compared with today's 2 inch wide variety.
Are you putting together what I started thinking? Could we have been knocked on our Axis! Could we have at one point had an earth without frozen winter or burning summer, without earthquakes or volcanoes, tsunami's or maybe even tornadoes? And this Eden of a planet then came head to head with a demon asteroid that shattered its perfection. Haven't we all heard that it was some massive asteroid shower that ended the Jurassic period. Well what if it was just one meteor? And one big enough that could knock our perfectly spun top to where we are now. Like say the one that hit the Gulf of Mexico some million odd years ago that the History channel just last week made mention of.
This all seemed to lend credence to some of the major world religions claims that the earth used to be perfect. That at one point there actually may have been a Garden of Eden called the Earth. Where we didn't need coats for our unsuitable skin to survive winter or scales to cope with summer like I would have guessed we would if evolution were the only truth. Now not only was the universe starting to look too good to be true, but the earth as well. It started to make sense to me that there had been some super intelligence that created this place for good, but something wrecked it. And it seems like a funny thought to me now, but then to think that since we put an owners manual to everything usable that we create, why wouldn't God? And so it just made sense to research the oldest books on the planet to see if there's a creation story that matched up with how we know from the "Big Bang" that we came into existence. I was now so curious to see whether or not there were any other scientifically plausible claims in any of those religions ancient history's. Could it be possible that this planet was designed and designed for perfection? I couldn't believe what else I found.