TWL Live! - Special Guest : Teresa MacBain

Teresa MacBain became a non-believer after more than twenty years of ministry. She started her career in ministry serving along side her father, a Baptist minister. She taught in Christian Schools, served as a worship pastor, associate pastor and senior pastor. Teresa received her bachelor’s degree from Samford University in Christian Education followed by her Masters in Divinity from Duke Divinity School. Teresa holds the distinction of being the first female graduate of The Clergy Project and as our first acting Executive Director. As a former minister, Teresa brings a broad understanding of the religious lifestyle and its effects on personal wellbeing to the non-theist movement. She’s a dynamic and entertaining public speaker with a heartfelt compassion for those struggling to completely free themselves from their religion. Currently, Teresa is the Public Relations Director for American Atheists and she remains a Clergy Project Board Member.

TWL Live! - Special guest : Hemant Mehta

Hemant Mehta graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with degrees in Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He earned his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University and is a National Board Certified high school math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Coalition for America, received scholarships from American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and appeared on CNN and FOX News Channel. He currently serves on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief (a charity organization targeting non-theistic donors) after spending several years as the chair of the board of the Secular Student Alliance (which creates and supports college atheist groups nationwide). Hemant is the author of I Sold My Soul on eBay (WaterBrook Press, 2007) and The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide (Patheos Press, 2012). His blog, the winner of the 2011 Bloggie award for Best Weblog About Religion, can be read at FriendlyAtheist.com. You can reach him at friendlyatheist@friendlyatheist.com. Also in this episode we talk philosophy as well as tackle the "Evil Condom Guy" video.

TWL Live - Improvised Show

Our scheduled guest was not able to make it. We talk about: Lawrence Krauss's debate with IERA The Gish Gallop The Hadith's in Islam Pantheism

Bonus - Kitch2 Intelligent Design and the Immune System

Bonus - Kitch2 Intelligent Design and the Immune System The Kitch2 tackles Intelligent Design and the Immune system. Kitch on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/thekitch2 Original video description : Published on May 18, 2012 Well, it was coming for a while. A good rant about why the immune system, although good is not intelligently designed. Some reading: Protein A: http://textbookofbacteriology.net/sta... Antigenic Variation: http://tryps.rockefeller.edu/trypsru2... Avoiding Antigen presentation, and some on other methods or immune modulation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK... HIV SAMHD1: Torsten Schaller, Caroline Goujon, Michael H. Malim (2012( HIV Interplay with SAMHD1. Science. HIV and mDCs: Nuria Izquerdi Useros et al (2012). Sialyllactose in Viral Membrane Gangliosides is A Novel Molecular Recognition Pattern for Mature Dendritic Cell Capture of HIV-1. Plos Biology. Autommunity: http://www.news-medical.net/health/Wh... TNF -a Amanda Mootoo, Elena Stylianou, Mauricio A. Arias and Rajko Reljic (2009). TNF-ô in Tuberculosis: A Cytokine with a Split Personality. Inflammation & Allergy - Drug Targets, 2009, 8, 53-62