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.

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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.

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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.

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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.