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  • If eating an infected chimpanzee meat or on contact it's bloody body going to give you HIV, then the real question is... how long these people in Africa been eating this meat? or wouldn't they been wiped out long centuries ago ( or vice verse for the chimps) bullshit!! I don't believe your idiotic cover-up theory mr ted. White Supremacy genocide is one way to put it, though the whites were used(political purpose) that doesn't make em innocent. And of-course it's the JEWellery man's fault.

  • @gurmad911 You must be a bad troll or incredibly stupid...

  • @TheWhiteUbik "white-ubik= white-god" aah'ha? haha you you ridiculously in delusional when it comes to self examining in the mirror, stupid does not begin of what to call an idiot like your self....

    your euro-centric nationalism shines one your youtube nickname.

    Come up with a valid reason of why I'm stupid rather than the obvious troll of it self. You're a fake and so is what your identity based on, whitegoat muthafukkker!....

  • You are my Hero Nathan!!! I would like to work with the GVFI

  • OK how much BS are you people trying to feed us?

  • @sirbata Some more...BUSH MEAT, sir...?

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  • 82 pepole have these viruses

    (ones who disliked.

  • There are a lot of zealous conspiracy theorist commenting here. Imaginitive, but misinformed in this instance.

    The chatter bout vegetarianism is a little off too. HIV is spread through the exhange and absorbtion of bodily fluid. So, a hunter with an open wound could catch stuff if monkey blood hits his stream. The virus cannot however, survive in saliva or the digestive track. Eating monkey meat isn't the risky part

  • What? HIV "crossed over" from chimps to humans?

    No...that is wrong...and utter bullshit.

    HIV never crossed species from animals into humans.

  • @kthorn612 HIV-1 was originally transmitted from chimps to humans...

  • can microsoft company know what viruses i have and cure it? i dont know why when i play game it will get blue screen or stuck, when convert video or something sometimes used up to 80-100% of cpu usage. What has happen to my com? can anyone tell me why? is it really virus? my eset-nod detected a few virus in my com, all already quarantined.

  • I heard no mention of where these viruses came from in the first place. What; they just 'appeared'? It is my understanding from years of research that these viruses were introduced by Bio Weapons researchers. What will it take for this society to "Wake Up"? Just look at the present uproar ( actually, there's not - but there certainly should be) over tainted vaccines. Do you think Baxter just had a little "mixup"? There will be another "virus" next year. What's it going to be? Cat, dog, ferret?

  • lol,, is it because of ,,,, power

  • The H along with the IV was the name given in the 80's, this video is about progress, you don't find a cure by reading textbooks, you have to do your own research. Please, spare us the high school science quotes

  • THE H IN HIV STANDS FOR HUMAN IT DOESN'T COME FROM MONKEYS..FFS

    apes get siv ... simian immune virus

    bush meat did not cause hiv this is bullshit misinformation.

    hiv studies infected chimps with hiv they did not ever develop into aids.

    weird fact andersons mom looks like zira off planet of the apes. Gloria Vanderbilt compare to zira they are one in the same weird!!!!

  • he said decades .... he was supposed to say centuries before.

  • Lies!! GE stop sponsering the deceit!! We kno who you are and all the bullshit the elites are up to. MISEDUCATION

  • What a hideous legacy of colonialism. Especially Belgian colonialism which failed to establish proper methods for dealing with any problems of Congo.

  • Who said that people deserve to live on this planet while all the other animals get wiped out. The primates are still being killed! Too smart for our own good.

  • The number of diseases spread by hunting and eating animals is actually a good case for vegetarianism.

  • This guy can't be serious. What a tool....

  • its hard to take anything he says seriously when his chart lumps SARS and Ebola together as a similar virus.

  • you're misreading the chart then :p

  • ebola/SARS

    thats how the chart is written out.  this guy is a leach on humanity.

  • how it's written and how it's read are different things xD

  • Isn't that chart just showing how far viruses have spread? So it's not saying they're the same virus - it's saying they've spread the same amount.

  • He does not say they are similar he is talking about the origins of human infective versions of the disease.

  • In this video Ted starts off claiming that AIDS had been around back in the 1920s. I'm not an expert on desease but I do understand basic multiplication rules from grade school and suspect that things would have been totally out of control way before 1981 if aids went unchecked for 50-60 years. IMHO It's bits of information like this that causes me to suspect the rest of his content as being erroneous.

  • iIthink this guy is making money spreading his lies.. poor guy don't know where the virus came from.. but he got paid.. and he is happy.. do this, be honest and tell the true..even if you do not make money.. ..

  • Hope he discovers the zombie plague/virus and becomes a zomie

  • Imigration.

  • .......continued:

    As much as I like to belive your simple presentation Mr Ted, the truth of the matter is > HIV~AIDS was a generically made disease by a American & German doctors. It was like the next atomic "bomb" at the time and the latest bio-weapon, it was meant for only a certain genes, unfortunately for them all humans have NO shield against the hiv/aids and therefore their plan had failed when it showed up @ their hometowns. I THINK YOU UNDERSTOOD MY POINT OF VIEW.

  • Exactly but,you'll be shunned for thinking this way.And I think you know why,you seem like your not enveloped society non-sense.

  • Shadowlooker

    No I don't know why, plz tell me.

    And about the "society" thing ....... I don't think I understood you there either.

  • paranoid little hippy aint he?

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  • What anarchist papers are you reading that have made you lose your sense of logic? Africa is not a continent that is only jungle and monkeys, but even with that, the knowledge of how AIDS/HIV has left the African people with countless orphans is fairly common. And concerning your second question: do you think that if the hunter had blood on him that he might touch his mouth at a later time spreading the virus, much like the common cold through surface contact? Also, his name is Nathan Wolfe.

  • @gurmad911 the CIA made that , just like they do every bio weapon

  • Ted I like to believe that your presentation was meant in a goodwill way, but my question to you is > If the virus(HIV~AIDS) was originated from animals like monkeys, then why haven't we seen the entire or the majority population of Africa & it's surrounding reach exploded with AIDS...since the continent and it's living creature existed millions/billions of years?

    2nd: Since the virus can't live outside of living creature even short minutes, then how it's possible that it survives when cooked?

  • so where do crabz come from?

    ...crab hunters?

  • ZOMMMMBIEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

  • Talking about extinction? you do realise that over the course of the earths existance, BILLIONS of species have been born and died out. theres no stoping it. it would happen whether or not we were hunting them. cause OTHER THINGS hunt them.

  • dont think u got the main problem in that. the problem is that humans are making the extinctions speed up rapidly, so if it continues we will have taken down millions of species that would take several thousand year to go extinct over natures course

  • Ballsie pricks the lot of you

  • FUCK ALL YOU DICKHEAD AMERICANS

  • fairly ignorant statement there to generalize an entire population as dickheads. And before you call me just another dickhead, I'm Canadian.

  • lawl

  • AIDS = created in a lab "dr. deagles or alex jones"

  • he really know how to give a good persentation

  • Smart Grid. We love Smart Grid. Smarrrrt Griiiid

  • There's like 10 hunters for one bush animal per day? The last days of mankind?

  • Most interesting and informative..Thank you for sharing

  • I doubt it's from people having sex with primates. fluid transfer.

  • you are so sad,what gift have you given the world ??????

    Missy

  • vegetarian is a quite unhealthy diet due to your body's need of protien which the main way we get protien is through meat

  • Absolutely untrue. Plentiful amounts of protein can be consumed through many, many, different means. You don't know what you're talking about. Even if there were finite amounts of protein available, but enough to survive, that would be well worth the prevention of such viruses as AIDS and "mad cow" which were originally spread through the consumption of meat.

  • @deathart225 . Congratulations. Maybe they'll invite you to TED to do a talk on this subject. "vegetarianism is unhealthy for lack of protein". Fucking fantastically well informed aren't you?

  • @kharnvelzyghur Somebody obviously hasn't had his PEANUT BUTTER yet, today...

  • thats rediculous. you must be a self righteous vegetarian type.

  • It's not ridiculous if you really think about it. AIDS was spread because of people hunting monkeys and getting blood in their wounds, right? So if they weren't hunting animals in the first place, it never would have happened (at least not in through those means). And I have every right to be somewhat self righteous in this case. I sacrifice a lot to be vegetarian and I think I deserve some gratification.

  • I don't. I think you need a filet minon. wrapped in bacon, cooked rare. Vegetarians deserve as much gratification for not eating meat as omnivores like myself do for eating meat. Nobody deserves gratification for their eating habits. Dietary choices don't make you a better person. Thats my opinion and I'm entitled to it. It is also my opinion that vegetarians still cause animal death indirectly by supporting farm fields where farmers have the right to exterminate bugs and animals.

  • Think what you may. And I don't support that.

  • Saying that vegetarianism would have stopped or minimized the spread of AIDS is a ridiculous and self-serving statement. Any benign interaction with an infected animal could potentially spread the disease. From that point on, the danger is spreading from human to human contact. Get off your soapbox.

  • So you're saying if you touch an infected animal you have just as high a risk to get AIDS as you do if you eat one? I admit it's unrealistic to say "if everyone were a vegetarian" and it's unrealistic to say "it would have been stopped or minimized" but you have to admit if everyone WERE vegetarians then it probably WOULD be very, significantly lower than it is now.

  • No, that's not what I am saying at all. I am not equating the risk of contracting the HIV virus by touching an animal with that of eating one.

    What I am saying is that you are using one possible means of how the disease could have jumped to humans to justify your own beliefs.

    You are saying that vegetarianism would have lowered the spread. Since AIDS is spread mainly through human-human fluid transfer, I assume your theory incorporates cannibalism as a major method of transmission?

  • Brilliant presentation, very well communicated

  • virus outbreaks our usally egineered bye the govement aswell as them engineering the viruses in the first place

  • Why would they create a virus that they are capable of getting infected from?

  • because they have special vaccines and under ground bunkers and the vaccine for normal peopl our tainted!!!!!!

  • I thought it was the Jewish Satanic Freemason Greys.

  • I'd like to see some proof of that. Post or PM me your referances and source material please.

  • what happen to the ten min long rule for youtube

  • first glance of the monkey i thought it was a se monster xD

    1:18

  • a sea monster***

    and i just noticed that there are 4 moneys

    im talking about the one above the bat in the sars catagory .. the light blue money...

    rofl idk why but for some fucked up reason i thought it was a sea monster...

  • well you are not special. who the hell are you? dont think everyone is like you, ofcouce you are not specia. Humans are not lazy like monkeys and donkeys and pigs,

  • Take the vaccine and the implants or you and your families will be destroyed, Satan will accept no resistance, join or die..., you are infected, you must join the machines, eat GMO foods, Pay more taxes, Obey to your Corporations, Buy Happy Meals and Vaccinate Your Children Often, have Your Pets Neutered and Sterilized, Buy more, Eat More, See Your Physicians, Take Your Pills, Obey All Corporations, Eat At Wendies, EAT, EAT, EAT.

  • NEEDLESS TO SAY, Jai is a fatty. D:

  • Wow, surprised at how off you are on this subject. Somebody's wasted time and money going down the wrong path.

  • ok if god created animals then why couldnt he cretae ones without any viruses?

    It shows that a man's god is himself

  • viruses are life forms as well

  • well well that doesn't matter. You got to kill anything anyone to save humans because scintists are human, and atists and great people are humans, so humans should exist, they are the ones who have understood nature

  • or maybe he had his reasons. you cant simply say what gods reasons are its like saying why does he put us on this earth but make space with no air?

  • yes and why does he make people too smart

  • i dont know its beyond our human reason god is the only one who knows all. he has his reasons and it cant be solved by us.

  • ok I have never argued about god, but his existence does not mean that the priests in the temple or church were more inteligent than scientists (apart from the priests who were both). You have to depend on people if you live on this earth. Who ever created you, you must find cures for desease

  • i agree about the priests part and how there not more intelligent then the scientists my point was as people in general whether your a priest or a scientist or even both know matter how much we know we cant really say why god does things.

  • well then, in your point of view the god has not killed a lot of scientists, although Hitler was keeping intellectuals in convcentration camps indescriminately, and the Greek emperor's soldier killed Archimedes, mostly people who suffer are just peoopple wanting to be simple, so dont be simple, take a book and read, its the only way my friend.

  • lol im not saying tht either. god put us on this earth with free will. therefore meaning we can do what we want, and think what we want. but only for a period of time either when judgment day comes. or if you die. then u get put into 2 places. but he does this to see if we'd do the right thing. thats how we get judged. so its not God. killing people. or not helping. u can do what u want. for a period of time.

  • well then find your self a girl and get a blow job before god roast her mouth with an astroid strike,.

  • LOL, i have a girl thanks. and is someone having their period now?

  • well if you say god god, the god can even kill your girl. so stop saying that and support people who are trying to do something advanced. atleast by talking on be half of them.

  • well yeah no shit he can kill her. lol but for the people who believe in god know that he can do anything and has reasons beyond belief. and of course i still support the people who r doing stuff advanced i never said i didnt. and is talking on behalf of them is saying gods not helping...no thanks. but again i never said i dont support them i do. because theyre contributing to a good cause.

  • well you can believe in anything, and I dont care as long as you are on right focus

  • brady ankleitus

  • Did you know there was a small ice age over europe after the black plauge hit, killing all of the plauge, nature does have a way of healing itself.

  • did you know after the black plauge there was a small ice age over Europe, thus killing any and all of the plauge? Nature has a way of healing itself people.

  • nature strikes back for the sheer arogance and violations of man

  • well said wizotch

  • @wizotch The CIA made all these made made viruses, and this video is funded by Bill Gates,

  • @SpaceMan131326 The CIA resents your inference. Please pass the salt, btw...

  • Realyman

    Viruses evolve just like all other living organisms. It might not have existed in a form transmissable to humans then

  • Viruses evolve you are right on that but to say the AIDS Virus didn't evolve when and now it did is just wrong read how Viruses evolve. the human flu Viruses one expl. and you know Viruses that are like AIDS and HIV when it come to human contact thoes humans will die of or AIDS Viruses will evolve or the human will difleb imminent to the HIV or the AIDS Virus.

  • Umm, could you try writing that comment again in English please? Also you misunderstood (from what I can tell from your comment), I didn't say AIDS evolved at one point and not another. Viruses like all living organisms are constantly evolving. I merely said that at one point the AIDS virus may have been at a point in it's development where it was not transmissible to humans. It's also quite likely that 1000 years ago AIDS was present in the human population, but in more localized instances

  • English is not my first English Language and im working on it. i cant write like you lol. thanks for the Re have nice day.

  • They also evolve far faster then the more complicated species

  • OK guys if AIDS came from Africans by eating bush meat or they say monkeys , how come hundreds of years or 1000s of years the people there were eating bush meat if there was AIDS from that how come the people there didn't died of. and you know what HIV or AIDS will do to you. if you dont  google it.

  • yea im sure they would enjoy being like experiments

  • Goodness me - this guy is yappy. One more theory happy dude.

    Look up PHAGES!

    PHAGES PHAGES PHAGES

  • more propaganda bullsh!t AIDS was made IN A LAB like h1n1... blood on the hands of our leaders.

  • I agree 100%.

  • I agree with you TRUEmyHEART 100%.

  • man this is bullshit i dont even want to have sex often cuz if u get hiv ur done for. An d sex is mandatory , after all thats what the fuck were here for , to reproduce!!!!

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  • Wow...umm all this talk it mucking up my head. How about forgetting about the tiny details and opinions and just know that most humans believe at least in one thing: BELIEF IN A HIGHER BEING THAN ONE'S SELF is enough for me.

  • U idiot! Chimps? Try the WHO invented it in labs and injects it to Africans to kill them off to steal their land. You will pass for your evil. Some day all will know AIDS is a disease of the COLON. healthy colon, AIDS virus cannot touch you. Many are easily cured of AIDS by refusing to eat commercial food and meat/animal products. AIDS healers are thrown into jail for the simple wholistic truth they share. Youtube AIDS Hoax and learn the truth. if you don;t know whats up....your late.

  • your pathetic, stop dreaming in color and believing in every conspiracy

  • Its not conspiracy it is true, naturally nature doesnt produce virus, it is people who produce virus that is only survive in human not in animals.

  • and why would you explain rats having desease, same for monkeys, just look it up if your not too lazy

  • How would you explaim black death in euroup. Dyou think that was just a plague coming down from the sky.

    Those who live in the Amazon who never been civilized and those who lived right in the interier of PNG never been suffered with viruses and sicknesses that we who live in the develope world suffers. This is what it calls the white mans desease. Euroupeans use to kill natives of many countries they colonised.

  • AIDs is scientifically impossible to come from HIV. if they say you have it, dont take the meds. or you will have it.

  • oh ,,, and how do u no this ?

  • he doesn't hes just an ignorant fuck

    telling people to open up their mind.

    but im sure opening your mind doesn't mean believing every conspiracy you see on the internet.

  • seriously you fuck.....so pathetic get a life

  • It's because of our senseless exploitation of the other animals on Earth.

    If we stop enslaving and attacking the rest of the world, we will survive too. At one point we won't be able to stop whatever virus/disease happens, at that point it will be too late.

    Humans are the virus. Not procreating and being compassionate towards other species is the most important thing we can do right now. Please listen to me before it's too late.

  • ----what I meant was, being compassionate towards all species on Earth, humans and non-humans, is important. Not procreating is also important. There are too many humans on Earth. Instead of fighting and killing we can prevent the suffering in the first place by not creating too many humans.

  • Virus need to be killed and if we are the virus.. are you suggesting that the whole human race needs to be wiped off the earth if so start by killing yourself.... Hard eh

  • I think we should stop reproducing for now. That would be smart. Obviously we are a parasite on the planet. Only someone extraordinarily thick-headed would deny that.

    This guy is right - it's not a conspiracy theory, it's proven fact now that scientists agree with, this is how we got HIV.

  • Gosh. God does not exist. He is a mythological character like Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Vishnu, Itzamma, etc. The God of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible, aka the God of the Jewish Tanakh, Yahweh aka the LORD was originally a Ugaritic Canaanite god who was amongst the Elohim, who were the sons of El, the supreme or high god of the Ugaritic Canaanite pantheon. Dumuzi in Sumerian mythology was resurrected long before Christianity existed. Jesus is a mythological character as well. Superstitions.

  • What makes god different from all the things scientist found out... all ideas came from a theory. God is a theory, reality is a theory, life on other planets are a theory, everything was based on a theory which was basically making up things and testing it to see if its true so how do YOU know if God does not exist if we havent test it?

  • hiv and aids and all these desieses were man made by scientists and injected into the population of the world by the elites of the world in order to control the population

  • its a big risk for us to rely on eatingsuch afood more in nutrients wid thiskind of newdeadly viruses,the only wayto prevent itfrom now on,

    gets awaycontacts from a food that'scontains Blood.

    we must to ignorefood that's containsblood generation

    finds a dailyhabbit wid no bloodrelations,

    this willprevent humanities to raise upagain until

    we foundgreat solutions todiscover unknown things b4 its toolate wen newbloods fallsdeeply in our system,itsproduces deadlyviruses dats we cannothandle anymore

  • itS Sad to say dat der was a time dats itS will come, a deseases thats the only way to vaccin is out there,wer toocloser into blood deseases from now on,even the aids inpastfew years until ryt now,we never hav a solutions coz entirely not in hir in ourplanet we must to discover newthings out der,dats the bigproblem of being lack of knowledge to explor unknown things,were not a stand alone planet acts always alone,we must to hurryto explor d universeb4 mordan blood issues desease wilcame out thru

  • yah uR right there was an intelligent terrestrial among all of this, it's was happen b4 and will happen and happen again repeatedly in blood generations, its an entirely deseases we must to discover and vaccin before its to late it's all issue's lies in our blood,,, an undiscovered deseased will came out through d years coz us human to paralized to unknown situations raised to wipeout,. we must to know the unknown life form existing in our planet coz the vaccin is out there maybe not in here,,

  • AIDS WAS STARTED BY AMERICAN WHILE TRYING TO FIND DRUG FOR EPILEPSY , POLIO AND WAS TRYIEDAND EXPERIMENTED ON AFRICAN PEOPLE dont believe me do some research

  • i thought white ppl gave monkeys aids to kill all the niggers??? ..... blame the whites blame the whites haha

  • Bull shit, this Idiot is repeating what the Media and fake infos are saying. He is not a scientist and talking like he knows who is his real father.....

    waste of time...bitch

  • All the scientists and tests in the world won't stop the spread of viruses if the government doesn't want it to happen. It's all about the might dollar and the pharmaceutical companies who are in bed with the government in some way I'm sure, benefit greatly from new illnesses. There already WAS a massive breakthrough to sure AIDS. "Funding" amazingly wasn't available to advance on findings. Hrm isn't that odd?

  • just read guns, germs, and steel and that pretty much sums up a lot of what he just said and more. not to mention explaining that zoonotic diseases are nothing new. theyre a by-product of animal domestication. we lived with pigs, cows etc and we got their diseases. how do you think europeans wiped out the native american population so fast? because europeans brought their zoonotic diseases with them to which natives had no resistance (since they weren't keeping livestock)

  • This comment is for children of DARWIN´S God :

    Fuck you and put this video on your pen drive and shaft up your ass before get to late as God send you (i)^(i)V intead of HIV

  • I think he has a great point here. Everyone else here who is calling him down should keep their opinions to themselves.

  • Yes, the dude forgot to mention the genetic manipulation of man-made viruses being made in laboritories.

  • Disease is created and spread by the Bilderburg group.

  • hmm how come no mention of the Special on TV couple years back that traces the start of aids to some British scientists doing live virus testing on the wrong kind of monkey to make vaccine then FORCING natives to get the shot-those villages are where AIDS began!! LIARS!! tell the truth pigs!! AIDS is MAN MADE! Thats why we never had a problem before-they want to decrease population esp of non-whites--wake up!

  • Your body is able to fight off the majority of illnesses if you are healthy.

    If you live the way you were mean to live then you should not get sick, sun burnt as easily, or even get cancer.

  • You're really fucking annoying do you know that?

    I had to put the fucking video into full screen mode because of retarded Christians like you.

    Christianity is for idiots.

  • I agree, if you are Christian. Keep it to your fucking self. If you can come here and say shit about Jesus I can come here say shit about how Jesus was/is not real. Fuck you.

  • Usually in school you learn that if you're going to start an argument you need to back yourself up with reasons.

    Apparently you missed that, I don't know I'm just saying, that's what it looks like. "Christianity is stupid, I won't tell you why but JUST TRUST ME OK?"

  • God is real,  it is said in a book.

  • Morelike "God is real, nothing comes from nothing so we can rationally conclude that there was a beginning, and something intelligent sparked it all. The universe is expanding so if you go back in time long enough, you reach a beginning."

    God isn't real, my parents told me so when I was little. My parents are never wrong.

  • Then where did God come from? If you say nothing comes from nothing it means God is nothing.

    good fight.

  • If God is omnipotent then God is unbound by time, if God is unbound by time, God needs no beginning or end. God is timeless, you could say God always existed but that isn't really true, it's beyond mankind's grasp. You cannot perceive a lack of time, but we can know that it's possible using our current logic.

    gf

  • f off i could give you tons of arguments but argumeting with a christian is like shooting with no bullets, there's no point.

  • I'm not surprised that you're unable to come up with a rebuttal. Trying to argue with a militant atheist is pointless I suppose.

  • Dude just f off arguing like that is pointless. There's just no way you're gonna make me believe in God and no way I can make you believe he doesn't exist.

  • rofl im the same... i dont believe in god and i dont disbelieve in god... my belife is neutral...

  • Then don't start an argument you can't finish. Simple as that.

  • Our current logic doesn't find any reason suggesting that god exists.

    Only peoples faith. If God created everything it still came from nothing. ;)

  • really because im pretty sure i just gave a few reasons why it does

    i can't really make sense of what you said after that considering that if I drop a nickel, you can't say "the nickel was dropped by nothing".

  • of course not. But picking up and dropping an object is wholly different from creating energy and matter.

    You gave a couple of reasons why YOUR logic says he does, not our collectic logic. Give one irrefutable reason why god should exist.

    If God was before everything, and created everything, it's still coming from nothing, coming into existence from nothingness. Regardless of how or why, it's the same. So it's more likely that this mechanism was triggered without intelligent design

  • God is not nothingness.

    One refutable reason why God should exist? Refute the ones I've already given. No one else has so far, all people have done is offer alternatives that don't hold any ground. (i.e. matter always existed, which is impossible)

  • You haven't stated any reasons why it is probable that God exists actually, unless they are past page 2.

    Regardless of whether or not God made matter, it still came from nothing. As in, the matter appears where there was no matter before.This is inarguable.

    And you have no idea whether or not matter always existing is impossible, what evidence do you have to offer that supports this notion?

  • ctrl + f LinkGrayX2 in all comments. might be on page 2 but i doubt it. If all fails, search John Claytons DoesGodexist, I borrow a lot of his arguments.

    If God is omnipotent and exists out of time then God can surely create matter from nothing.

    Matter can't always exist because everything that is within physical limitations must have a beginning. Without a beginning, it cannot exist, because it never did to begin with. So the only way matter can always exist is if matter is God.

  • LinkGrayX2, who says it is impossible for matter to have always existed? Are you basing that on the assumption that matter came into existence at the Big Bang? If so, let me inform you of something, because you seem to be ignorant of this knowledge. Science is a work in progress. In science, a fact is an observable phenomenon; a hypothesis is an explanation of an observable phenomenon; a theory is an explanation of an observable phenomenon that has been precisely tested and holds up to scrutiny.

  • Having said all that, the Big Bang is a scientific theory. Is God a scientific theory? If so, what explanation of an observable phenomenon that has been tested and holds up to scrutiny suggests the existence of God? Since science is a work in progress, for all we know, matter could have always existed. And even if matter came into existence at the Big Bang, at least the Big Bang is a scientific theory? Is God a scientific theory?

  • I was not basing this off of the Big Bang theory, but let me point out that as an atheist you should absolutely despise the big bang theory, considering it suggests a beginning. Science may be a work in progress but you can't just use ignorance to defend yourself, saying "I don't know, therefore I will dismiss your arguments."

  • Oops, in my last comment to you, I put a question mark at the end of my second-last sentence. I meant to put a period.

  • no graven images - no other gods...

    how much divinity is in the