Your opening sentence is one of the most ironic things ever said at this site. You are asking easily answered questions, simply because you haven't bothered to think about it, or even performed the most basic search for information.
There are any number of resources that you can turn to that will show you the answers that science currently provides to those questions. If you really want to know, we'd be happy to direct you there. However, I'm quite certain you don't want to know the answers. I'm quite sure that you consider these to be deep questions, unanswerable by science. And, the fact that you think these questions are unanswerable makes you feel more secure in your faith in some deity or other, most likely the Christian god.
Be careful where you tread here. If you look too closely, you will find there are many, many answers to questions that will make you quite uncomfortable. Or you will learn to ignore the answers that make you uncomfortable and whistle past the graveyard.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung