TWL Live - Special Guest : Sanal Edamaruku

Sanal Edamaruku is the founder-president of Rationalist International. He is also the president of the Indian Rationalist Association. He is the editor of the internet publication Rationalist International, author of 25 books and numerous articles. 

On 3 March 2008, while appearing on a panel TV show, Sanal Edamaruku challenged a tantrik to demonstrate his powers on him by killing him using only magic. The tantrik chanted mantras and performed a ceremony to kill Sanal Edamaruku on live TV. India TV received a large boost in ratings while this was occurring. After his attempts failed the tantrik reported that Edamaruku must be under the protection of a powerful god, to which Edamaruku responded that he is an atheist

In 2012 he was charged with hurting religious sentiments for his role in examining a claimed miracle at a local Catholic Church.

Local time(s) : http://tinyurl.com/twl-sanal

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Sanal's Blog : http://sanaledamaruku.blogspot.co.uk/

Story of Sanal's accusations of blasphemy :

Bonus : Evolution Of Pony - Debunking Fine Turding I Mean, Fine Tuning

The newest member of the TWL family, TheEvolutionOfPony takes on the argument from fine-tuning.

Subscribe to Pony : http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEvolutionofPony

Original video : http://youtu.be/EaZwwSwRwlw

Original video description : Here is a video debunking the stupid fine tuning arguments that many creationists use. Hope you all enjoy.

Got questions? email us : contact@trollingwithlogic.com

TWL LIVE! - John Pendleton PWNage

The TWL team take on John Pendleton's claims about the Bible and Dinosaurs. Original video : http://youtu.be/QmC4dwCcsUs In this PWNage: AngryWomble BigLundi Martymer81 SoundOfScilence EvolutionOfPony

TWL Live With Herb Silverman & Martin Wagner

Herb Silverman served as president of the Secular Coalition through December of 2012. Born in Philadelphia, Herb received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Syracuse University and is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. He has published over 100 research papers in mathematics journals, a couple of books on Complex Variables, and is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Award. In 1990, a colleague pointed out that atheists were ineligible to hold public office in South Carolina. After an eight-year battle, Herb won a unanimous decision in the South Carolina Supreme Court, which struck down this religious test requirement. He founded the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry in Charleston, SC, and is founder and faculty advisor to the College of Charleston student Atheist/Humanist Alliance. He is a board member of the American Humanist Association, advisory board member of the Secular Student Alliance, and member of the Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Herb has appeared in a number of debates, including one at the Oxford Union in Oxford, England on the topic: Does American Religion Undermine American Values? He has spoken at numerous freethought conferences and given sermons at Unitarian churches. He has had many articles in freethought publications, writes for Secular World, has a book chapter called "Inerrancy Turned Political" in The Fundamentals of Extremism, and is an "On Faith" panelist for the Washington Post online. Herb's new book is titled Candidate Without a Prayer, An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt. TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ Watch live : http://bit.ly/JcYmkP Watch past episodes : http://bit.ly/107DLei TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic Podcast : http://bit.ly/WUIFH

Bonus : Martymer81 on 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Trolling With Logic's resident Viking takes a look at 9/11 conspiracies in this audio cut from his "Dissecting Pseudoscience" series. Subscribe to Martymer : http://www.youtube.com/user/Martymer81 The two videos used : http://youtu.be/P6zpNl9836w And : http://youtu.be/d00wpskfGIM Video description(s) : I'm aware that there are many arguments I'm not bringing up here. Some of them will be addressed in Part 2. Others, well... I'll never be able to cover *every* stupid claim, so we'll see if there will ever be a Part 3. Bottom line is, there is no alternative to the official story, except in the minds of people with no clue what the hell they're talking about, and who start out with the conclusion that the US government *must* have been behind it. Bazant's paper from 2001: http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/WTC-asce.pdf Time to take on the big boys. And no, I can't say that with a straight face... Papers cited: Bazant et al, 2008: http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/Bazant_WTC_Collapse_What_Did__Did_No.pdf Harrit et al, 2009: http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-spoof-paper-accepted-by-peerrevie... Music and sound effects from Designer Sound FX by Video Copilot. License at http://www.videocopilot.net/assets/public/misc/License_Agreement.pdf Lolcat images based on public domain photos from http://www.public-domain-image.com/animals/cat/index.html "Earnie the Emu" by bluegum: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/860327 Everything else by me.

TWL Live! - Special guest : Dr Darrel Ray

Darrel Wayne Ray (born 1950) is a writer and speaker on leadership and organizational development and author of two books on the topic. He is the author of the book The God Virus: How Religion Affects Our Lives and Culture. Ray is founder of the organization "Recovering Religionists", a national self-help group for those leaving their religious indoctrination. In May 2011, he published the survey Sex and Secularism: What Happens When You Leave Religion?. In February 2012 Dr Ray released the book "Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality". Recovering from religion : http://recoveringfromreligion.org/ Secular Therapy Project : http://www.seculartherapy.org/ Dr Ray's books (UK) : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darrel-W.-Ray/e/B002GEZTFO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1359326145&sr=8-1 Dr Rays's books (USA) : http://www.amazon.com/Darrel-W.-Ray/e/B002GEZTFO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1359326208&sr=8-1 TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ Watch live : http://bit.ly/JcYmkP Watch past episodes : http://bit.ly/107DLei TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic Podcast : http://bit.ly/WUIFH2

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest Tracie Harris

From the Atheist Experience Website "Tracie is one of the newer faces on the Atheist Experience. She's a former fundamentalist who brings a common sense perspective to our show. Tracie is also a talented cartoonist who does the Atheist Eve strip hosted on the Atheist Community of Austin web site." http://www.atheist-experience.com/people/tracie_harris/ TWL website : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com/ Watch live : http://bit.ly/JcYmkP Watch past episodes : http://bit.ly/107DLei TWL facebook group : http://on.fb.me/TZwgy3 TWL twitter : https://twitter.com/TrollingWLogic Podcast : http://bit.ly/WUIFH2

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest David Silverman

Dave Silverman is an activist from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Silverman began publicly challenging religion in high school and often states in interviews that he became an atheist at the age of six.

He received a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and a Marketing MBA from Penn State University. Silverman is a successful inventor with seventy four patents, and has authored several articles, including a cover story for Inventors digest. Dave Silverman has been married to publisher Hildy Silverman for almost two decades. The couple has one teenage daughter.

Silverman has worked with the American Atheists organization since 1996, and has held a variety of roles, including: New Jersey State Director, Communications Director, and Vice President. He was elected president of American Atheists on September 16, 2010, following Ed Buckner. Silverman also cohosts the Atheist Viewpoint television program, writes for the NoGodBlog, attends protests, debates and conferences for atheism and freethought, across the country.

Bonus - Kitch Responds to a Suspected Troll

Kitch responds to an interesting PM.

Video description:
PM: Public TV programs, educational policy statements, and science textbooks have asserted that Darwin's theory of evolution fully explains the complexity of living things. The public has been assured, most recently by spokespersons for PBS's Evolution series, that "all known scientific evidence supports [Darwinian] evolution" as does "virtually every reputable scientist in the world." The following scientists dispute the first claim and stand as living testimony in contradiction to the second. There is scientific dissent to Darwinism. It deserves to be heard.

Henry F. Schaefer, Nobel Nominee, Director of Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, U. of Georgia • Fred Sigworth, Prof. of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale Grad.
School• Philip S. Skell, Emeritus Prof. Of Chemistry, NAS member • Frank Tipler, Prof. of Mathematical Physics, Tulane U. • Robert Kaita, Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton • Michael
Behe, Prof. of Biological Science, Lehigh U. • Walter Hearn, PhD Biochemistry-U. of Illinois • Tony Mega, Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry, Whitworth College • Dean Kenyon, Prof. Emeritus
of Biology, San Francisco State • Marko Horb, Researcher, Dept. of Biology & Biochemistry, U. of Bath • Daniel Kuebler, Asst. Prof. of Biology, Franciscan U. of Steubenville • David
Keller, Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry, U. of New Mexico • James Keesling, Prof. of Mathematics, U. of Florida • Roland F. Hirsch, PhD Analytical Chemistry-U. of Michigan • Robert
Newman, PhD Astrophysics-Cornell U. • Carl Koval, Prof., Chemistry & Biochemistry, U. of Colorado • Tony Jelsma, Prof. of Biology, Dordt College • William A. Dembski, PhD
Mathematics-U. of Chicago • George Lebo, Assoc. Prof. of Astronomy, U. of Florida • Timothy G. Standish, PhD Environmental Biology-George Mason U. • James Keener, Prof. of
Mathematics & Adjunct of Bioengineering, U. of Utah • Robert J. Marks, Prof. of Signal & Image Processing, U. of Washington • Carl Poppe, Senior Fellow, Lawrence Livermore
Laboratories • Siegfried Scherer, Prof. of Microbial Ecology, Technische Universität München • Gregory Shearer, Postdoc. Researcher Internal Medicine, U. C. Davis •


What the rest of the scientists?

http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/

Wake up.. stop being a tool of those who want you dead.

Sent to: TheKitch2
Donexodus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1Bo6GmPqM
Stats: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes190000.htm

Bonus - Martymer81 : Quantum Physics Abuse

Dissecting Pseudoscience takes on a new subject: the pseudo scientific butchering of quantum physics. You know, the whole "science of infinite possibilities" nonsense.

Featuring BigLundi as Dr. Derpak. Go subscribe to him!http://www.youtube.com/user/biglundi

Music used:
"Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod, http://www.incompetech.com
http://music.incompetech.com/royaltyfree2/Eighties%20Action.mp3
CC: By Attribution 3.0 http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/licenses/

TWL LIVE! - Eric Hovind Live PWNage

Trolling With Logic and guests  take on Hovind Junior.

Original video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiDbPze-tRI&list=SP67A8CD34B93EEEEE&i...

on the team :
Thekitch2 : http://www.youtube.com/thekitch2
AngryWomble : http://www.youtube.com/angrywomble
Martymer81 : http://www.youtube.com/martymer81
13heathens : http://www.youtube.com/13heathens

Bonus - EmptyWithoutBrain - The Value Of Debating

EmptyWithoutBrain discusses the value of good debating. http://www.youtube.com/emptywithoutbrain

Harun Yahya Live PWNage

Zulu, Lundi, Kitch, Marty & SoundOfScilence from Skeptic TV take on Harun Yahya's "Misconceptions of Evolution". It goes as expected.

Bonus - BigLundi - Solipsisms Silliness

BigLundi tackles solipsism in this audio cut from one of his videos. BigLundi - http://www.youtube.com/biglundi Video foot notes: A few things to take a look at G.E. Moore - "A Defense of Common Sense" Ludwig Wittgenstein - "On Certainty" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_a_hand http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/#7 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/methodological-individualism/

TWL Live! - Special Guest - Michael Nugent

Michael Nugent (born 1 June 1961) is an Irish writer and activist. He has written three books, co-written two and was one of the three writers of comedy musical play I, Keano. He has campaigned on many political issues, often with his late wife Anne Holliday, and he is chairperson of the advocacy group Atheist Ireland. He argues that atheism provides a better model of reality, and a better basis for morality, than believing in gods; that atheists can enjoy the benefits that many people get from religion, without the harmful effects; and that the state should be secular, promoting neither religion nor atheism. He writes a blog about happiness and atheism, and he supports Bohemians and Leeds United football clubs. Atheist Ireland - http://www.atheist.ie/ Michael Nugent - http://www.michaelnugent.com/

Bonus - Martymer 81 : Assumptions of pseudoscience

TWL's martymer examines the assumptions of pseudoscience. A great primer into skeptical thinking. Original video = http://youtu.be/pNVq96YNxTo

Bonus - Big Lundi Calls the MSS

TWL panelist BigLundi calls into the Magic Sandwich Show http://www.magicsandwichshow.com/

TWL Live - Special guest - Matt Dillahunty

Atheist Experience host Matt Dilahunty drops by for a chat.

Bonus - Kitch calls into Skeptic Fence show & DPRjones

TWL member Kitch calls in to the excellent Skeptic Fence show to speak to the team alongside their special guest, DPRjones. The recent abortion case in Irelans is the topic for this call.

TWL Live - Special guest - Chris Wanjek : Nature V Nuture

Christopher Wanjek is a health and science journalist and author based in the United States. He received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University and his master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O (Wiley & Sons, 2003) and of Food At Work: Workplace Solutions for Malnutrition, Obesity and Chronic Diseases (ILO, 2005). Bad Medicine was translated into Korean by Park Eun-young in 2006. Food at Work, written for the International Labour Organization, has since been translated into Spanish and presented in numerous countries, largely in South America.The concept for the "Food at Work" as well as the final product has been lauded by unions and nutritionists, with emeritus professor of nutrition A. Stewart Truswell of University of Sydney describing it as "a beautifully designed, written and printed book [that] would have to be consulted by anyone advising on food at work anywhere in the world." The project has inspired government legislation to improve worker feeding programs in Mexico, Lithuania, Uruguay and elsewhere in South America. As as astronomy writer, Wanjek worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland until 2007 and freelanced for astronomy magazines such Sky & Telescope and Astronomy. He currently is the "Armchair Astrophysics" columnist for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury Magazine. As a health writer, Wanjek wrote many stories for CBS Healthwatch and the Washington Post health section between 1999 and 2004. Since 2006 he has written a weekly column for LiveScience called Bad Medicine. His LiveScience column has criticized scientifically discredited statements by Pope Benedict XVI which claimed that condoms increase AIDS prevalence, among other controversial topics. While a student at Temple University, Wanjek was part of the Philadelphia comedy scene that produced comic Paul F. Tompkins and writer-director Adam McKay, his former housemate, among others. Wanjek has written for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno since 1998