TwL Live! - Special Guest Sara Mayhew

International award-winning mangaka, Sara E. Mayhew, is a writer and illustrator that the prestigious Applied Arts magazine called “young blood commanding our attention”. Her work has been published by Owl Kids and Scholastic. The world renowned TED conference accepted Sara into their TED Fellowship program, a class of young world-changers in the cutting edge of their fields, for her work to promote science education through manga. Among her many guest appearances include speaking at TED’09 in Long Beach, CA, TEDActive’10 in Palm Springs, CA, the Center for Inquiry in Hollywood, CA, and The Amaz!ng Meeting  in Las Vegas, NV. In 2010, Nokia featured her in their Responsiveness campaignvideo on communicating the values of science literacy through art. She is frequently interviewed on podcasts, radio, blogs and other media. The Ontario Arts Council recently awarded her a grant of $10,000 from their Northern Arts program for her latest series, Legend of the Ztarr.

TwL Live! - Special guests Danish Atheist Society

TwL Live with Kurt Bilsbo & Tylzen from The Danish Atheist Society.

More information http://www.ateist.dk/content/

TwL Live! - Special Guest John W Loftus

Special guest: John W Loftus

John W. Loftus is a former Christian minister and apologist with M.A., M.Div., and Th.M. degrees in Philosophy, Theology, and the Philosophy of Religion, the last of which was earned under William Lane Craig. He is the author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity and The Outsider Test for Faith.

http://www.debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com

TwL Live! -Special guest Tracie Harris

TwL Speak to Atheist Experience co-host Tracie Harris.

TwL Live! - Special Guest Robert Sheaffer

Robert Sheaffer (born 1949 in Chicago, IL) is a freelance writer and a prominent investigator of unidentified flying objects, Christianity, academic feminism, and many other subjects. He is an outspoken skeptic and critic of the above topics, and has written numerous critiques of feminist beliefs and ideas, Christian beliefs regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ, and the theory that UFOs may be alien spacecraft or some other unknown phenomena and not simply hoaxes or misidentifications of known phenomena. He is also a strong defender of the theory of evolution, and a critic of the theory of creationism, or the belief that God or a supernatural being created the universe. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Sheaffer writes for Skeptical Inquirer (for which he writes the regular "Psychic Vibrations" column), Fate Magazine, and Spaceflight. He was a founding member (with Philip J. Klass and James Oberg) of the UFO Subcommittee of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), and is a fellow of that organization. He is a member of MENSA.

Sheaffer has frequently been quoted in the news media regarding UFOs and psychic predictions.
On July 7, 2010 a flight crew preparing to land in Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Airport in China reported an UFO. As a precaution 18 flights were "delayed or redirected". Sheaffer's article in Skeptical Inquirer Magazine's Nov/Dec 2010 issue is a discussion of how photographs and videos are used. "Reporters want an exciting story, and UFOlogists want to win converts. They will typically grab onto any photo or video that is supposed to represent the object and report as fact practically any claim that is made regardless of its source or veracity." In the case of the Xiaoshan Airport, most of the footage shown was actually taken a year previous to the July 2010 incident.

Ufologist Kevin D. Randle was interviewed by Sheaffer for Skeptical Inquirer Magazine's January/February 2011 issue: looking to "explore their points of agreement and disagreement, finding that Randle gives more weight to 'eyewitness testimony' than skeptics typically do."

Interviewed by the Toronto Sun Newspaper December 20, 2010, Sheaffer is asked by columnist Thane Burnett to debate UFO enthusiast Chris Rutkowski to "debate the known realities". When asked "Is it reasonable to conclude a UFO – something that was beyond our comprehension and understanding – has ever crashed on Earth?" Sheaffer relies "No, because no one has ever produced any proof of any extraterrestrial technology being retrieved, despite many claims. Talk is cheap, show us the evidence."

TwL Live! - Special guest Robert Johnson

TwL Interview ethicist and philosopher Robert Johnson about his recent book "Rational Morality: A Science of Right and Wrong"

Rational morality is the first entirely rational theory of morality. The first half of the book is a discussion of ethics for the Brian Cox and Richard Dawkins generation: accessible, yet thorough. Finding the subject to be rationally sparse, the infamous ‘is-ought’ problem is engaged and a solution introduced: Rational Morality, a theory of how we can base morality in science, in an entirely coherent and consistent manner.
An idea that could greatly change the face of human values, Johnson furthers this by examining the theory scientifically; exploring the reasons why people might criticise such an idea, whilst providing brief explanations of the counter arguments which support the radical thesis.

For all the originality of this theory, it means nothing without a practical basis; a new form of science requires a demonstration of how it works. The second half of the book is thus dedicated to its strength—practical ethics. Johnson highlights 5 sections that he believes to be important new areas of study in moral science: rationality and anti theism, animal ethics, determinism, politics and rational discourse. Each is designed to provide guides as to how reason can use Rational Morality to define secular moral rules in these areas.

TwL Live! - Special guest Andrew Dart

TwL speak to Andrew Dart author of "Building Your Skeptical Toolkit: A beginner's guide to science, skepticism and critical thinking skills"


Around the world belief in the paranormal and pseudoscience is running rampant. 40% of people in the UK believe in haunted houses, governments employ dowsing devices to detect bombs and people give away all they have in the belief that the world is about to end…again. In this modern age it seems we need reason and critical thinking skills more than ever.
Building your Skeptical Toolkit will help equip you with the tools you will need to start exploring this amazing world of ours as it really is and accurately enable you to evaluate the claims of psychics, conspiracy theorists and everyone in between. It will help you to see behind the myths and trickery, the fake science and unfounded claims, that fill our modern lives and discover the amazing and beautiful reality that lies beyond.

“Dart has hit the bullseye. Everyone who reads this book will find new dimensions in the world around them, that previously seemed impenetrable and insoluble. It’s an amazing place, once Dart shows you how to see past the roadblocks put up by your own brain.”

Brian Dunning, Skeptoid.com

Evolution Vs God PWNage

The TwL team cast a critical eye over banaman's "Evolution Vs God" "documentary"

TwL Live! - Special guest Phil Moriarty

Philip Moriarty is a Professor of Physics and an Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham. His research interests span a number of topical themes in nanometre scale science with a particular current focus on single atom/molecule manipulation. He has coordinated a number of multi-partner European networks (including, most recently, ACRITAS), and is currently Chair of the Institute of Physics Nanoscale Physics and Technology Group committee, a member of the Science Board of the Institute of Physics, and was a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Physics from 2005 - 2006.

Moriarty has a keen interest in outreach activities and both science and higher education funding policy. In addition to participating in a number of research council-funded public engagement projects (including Giants of the Infinitesimal), and his membership of the Steering Committee of the Council for the Defence of British Universities, he has interacted with national and international media (including The Independent, The Guardian, Times Higher Education, BBC Radio 4, Die Zeit, and The Economist) on these issues. He is also a regular contributor to Nottingham's Sixty Symbols YouTube project which has, as of December 2012, attracted a little over 15 million views (across 200 videos).

Although he does not share his infamous namesake's fascination with the binomial theorem, in his spare time Moriarty enjoys exploring the relationships between mathematics/physics and music

Mental Health Ireland - Part 16 - Conclusion

Hour 16 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Conclusion

Mental Health Ireland - Part 15 - Hayley Stevens

Hour 15 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Not James Randi

Mental Health Ireland - Part 14 - Lying Ghost Show

Hour 14 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Lying Ghost Show.

Mental Health Ireland - Part 13 - Eugenie Scott

Hour 13 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Eugenie Scott

Mental Health Ireland - Part 12 - Steve Shives

Hour 12 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Steve Shives

Mental Health Ireland - Part 11 - Atheist Experience

Hour 11 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Atheist Experience.

Mental Health Ireland - Part 10 - Barbara Forrest

Hour 10 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Barbara Forrest.

Mental Health Ireland - Part 9 - James Randi & Atheist Experience

Hour 9 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Not James Randi

Mental Health Ireland - Part 8 - Not James Randi

Hour 8 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Not James Randi

Mental Health Ireland - Part 7 - NotInMyName

Hour 7 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest NotInMyName

Mental Health Ireland - Part 6 - Richard Coughlan

Hour 6 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Richard Coughlan

Mental Health Ireland - Part 5 - Not Phil Moriarty

Hour 5 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Not Phil Moriarty.

Mental Health Ireland - Part 4 - Stephen Law

Hour 4 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Stephen Law

Mental Health Ireland - Part 3 - Michael Nugent

Hour 3 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest Michael Nugent

Mental Health Ireland - Part 2 - James Grime

Hour 2 of Trolling With Logic's Charity Show in aid of Mental Health Ireland. Special guest James Grime

Mental Health Ireland Charity Show - Part 1 - Introductions

The Introductory hour to Trolling With Logic's 16 hour charity show in aid of Mental Health Ireland.

Scottish Secular Society Presentation To Scottish Parliament

This is the audio from the Scottish Secular Society's presentation of their "Opt-In" petition regarding Religious Observance in Scottish schools.

Representing the Scottish Secular Society are :

Caroline Lynch, Chairperson
Mark Gordon, Parent who raised the issue originally.

More Information on the petition http://scottishsecularsociety.com/petition/

Bonus - Martymer81 - DNA is Not Information debunked

Trolling With Logic : Bonus Episode : Martymer 81 "DNA is information" debunked.

Original video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhdYFWQXh4&feature=share&list=TLfDuERDDkihY

TwL Live! - Special Guest - Professor Andy Lawrence

The TwL team (Zulu & Martymer) talk to Professor Andy Lawrence, Regius Porfessor of Astronomy, Edinburgh University.

Professor Lawrence's research interests are: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), observational cosmology, survey astronomy, and e-science (the Virtual Observatory).

Professor Lawrence's homepage: http://www.roe.ac.uk/~al/
Professor Lawrence's Blog: http://andyxl.wordpress.com/
Professor Lawrence's twitter: http://twitter.com/e_astronomer

TwL Live! - Special guest Maryam Namazie

Zulufightrunner, Martymer81 & J speak to Maryam Namazie.

Maryam Namazie (born 1966) is an Iranian-born activist, commentator and broadcaster.

Namazie was born in Tehran but left with her family in 1980 after the 1979 Iranian Revolution was suppressed by the Islamic movement. She has worked as the executive director of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees and is spokesperson for the One Law for All Campaign against Sharia law in Britain. The campaign is opposed to faith based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law for all. She is also Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain which aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.

Moreover, she is a National Secular Society Honorary Associate and the NSS' 2005 Secularist of the Year award winner; Spokesperson of Equal Rights Now - Organisation against Women's Discrimination in Iran; and Central Committee member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. She is involved with Iran Solidarity, which she founded, and the International Committee against Stoning among other activities. She was selected one of the top 45 women of the year 2007 by Elle Quebec.

She has spoken at numerous conferences and written many articles on women's rights issues, violence against women, political Islam, and secularism - some of which have been translated into various languages.

Previously, Namazie was the elected Executive Director of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees, a refugee run organisation with 60 branches in 15 countries worldwide and founded the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR). She also hosted and produced a weekly TV International programme broadcast in the Middle East via New Channel TV.

After the Muhammad cartoons controversy, she, together with 11 other activists, published a declaration named MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism. MANIFESTO portrayed the rise of Islamism as a new totalitarianism.

On 15 September 2010, Namazie, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.
Maryam Namazie currently lives in the United Kingdom.

Council of Ex-Muslims : http://ex-muslim.org.uk/
One Law For All          : http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/
Maryam's Blog            : http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie
Maryam's Website       : http://www.maryamnamazie.com/

TWL LIve! - Scottish Secular Society

Zulufightrunner and Martymer81 talk to Caroline Lynch (Chairperson, Scottish Secular Society) and Garry Otton (Founder and Secretary, Scottish Secular Society)

Bonus Episode Martymer 81 Spirit Science!

Published on 12 May 2013 A response to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmN2RL... by TheSpiritScience. Footage from said video is used for purposes of commentary and criticism, in accordance with article 107 of the US Copyright Act and §22 of the Swedish Copyright Law (Upphovsrätten). View Original Video : http://youtu.be/6dVOrJ-c7_s Subscribe to Martymer81 : http://www.youtube.com/user/Martymer81

TWL Live! Iain Juby live PWNage

The TwL team take on Iain Juby AKA Wazooloo Special guests : DPRjones & Sir Strife.

TWL Live! Special Guest Sean M Carroll

Sean Michael Carroll, Ph. D (born 5 October 1966) is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is also a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as Nature, Seed, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist. Described as a gifted science communicator, he has appeared on the History Channel's The Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Carroll is the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for the Teaching Company on cosmology and the physics of time. He is also the author of two popular books: one on the arrow of time entitled From Eternity to Here, and one on the Higgs boson entitled The Particle at the End of the Universe.

Twl Live! - Special Guest Debbie Goddard

Debbie Goddard is the outreach director at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, NY. She is also the director of African Americans for Humanism, a program of the Council for Secular Humanism. Before working for CFI, she participated in local freethought groups in the greater Philadelphia region and helped organize and support campus groups internationally as a student volunteer. She has also been involved with progressive issues and LGBT activism. Debbie’s first experience with organized freethought was in 2000, when she traveled to Amherst, New York, for a Center for Inquiry Student Leadership Conference. Inspired by the experience, she began attending freethought, humanist, atheist, and skeptic group meetings in the greater Philadelphia region, including in New York City, New Jersey, and central Pennsylvania. She also started a CFI-affiliated campus group at her college. Over time, her involvement increased: she joined the CFI Metro New York Advisory Board in 2002 and volunteered with CFI’s campus outreach program as publications director from 2001 to 2002 and as student president from 2002 to 2003. She also held a work-study position at the CFI New York City office in Rockefeller Center while a full-time student at Temple University. In 2002, she was profiled in a Beliefnet article, "Godless Who’s Who", as a student activist. She was also interviewed by the Washington Blade, formerly one of the nation’s largest circulation LGBT newspapers, as an “out” nonbeliever. In early 2006, Jamila Bey interviewed Debbie for an article about African American female atheists for the Skepchick blog. In June 2006, CFI hired Debbie as a field organizer, allowing her to utilize her grassroots organizing experience working with campus and community groups. In 2012, she was promoted to director of outreach, and now oversees CFI's U.S. branches in addition to the international campus outreach program.

TwL Live! - Special guest - Alber Saber

Alber Saber Ayad (Egyptian Arabic: ألبير صابر عياد)is an Egyptian blogger arrested on 13 September 2012 on allegations of having shared the YouTube trailer for the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims on his Facebook page. He is a computer science student from a Coptic Christian family. Co-Hosts: Arab Atheist host Aly : http://www.youtube.com/user/alyraly Neo Atheist : http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNeoAtheist

TWL Live! - Special guest Dr Stephen Law

Stephen Law is a philosopher and senior lecturer at Heythrop College in the University of London. He also edits the philosophical journal Think, which is published by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and aimed at the general public. Law currently lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and two daughters. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and in 2008 became the Provost of the Center for Inquiry UK. Law has published both a variety of academic papers and more popular, introductory books (including three children's philosophy books). Dr Law's Blog : http://stephenlaw.blogspot.co.uk/ Dr Law's Books (Amazon UK) : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-Law/e... Dr Law's Books (Amazon USA) : http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Law/e/B...

TWL Live! A Question Of Origins PWNage

The TWL team, with guests take a critical look at the creationist "documentary" - A Question of Origins. In this show : Zulufightrunner : http://www.youtube.com/zulufightrunner Martymer81 : http://www.youtube.com/martymer81 BigLundi : http://www.youtube.com/BigLundi Guests SoundOfScilene : http://www.youtube.com/soundofscilence SirStrife : http://www.youtube.com/sirstrife

TWL Live! - Special guest: Edward Tabash

Edward (Eddie) Tabash is an American lawyer and political and social activist. An atheist and a proponent of the Establishment Clause, Tabash has debated several world renown religious philosophers, including William Lane Craig, Peter van Inwagen and Richard Swinburne. Tabash is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He is also the Chair of the First Amendment Task Force for the Council for Secular Humanism and has written amicus briefs for both the U.S. Supreme Court and the California State Supreme Court. Tabash graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973 and obtained a law degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1976. His father was an orthodox rabbi from Lithuania and his mother was an Auschwitz survivor from Hungary. Tabash works in Beverly Hills, California. 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: Dan Barker

Barker received a degree in Religion from Azusa Pacific University and was ordained to the ministry by the Standard Community Church, California, in 1978. He served as associate pastor at a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) church, an Assembly of God, and an independent Charismatic church. To this day, he receives royalties from his popular children's Christian musicals, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (1977), and "His Fleece Was White as Snow" (1978), both published by Manna Music and performed in many countries. In 1984 he announced to his friends that he was an atheist. A successful musician, Barker has composed over 200 songs that have been published or recorded. He is the current co-president with his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an American Freethought organization that promotes the separation of church and state. Barker is co-host of Freethought Radio, a Madison, Wisconsin based radio program for atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers that has included interviews with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Julia Sweeney, and Michael Newdow. His foundation published his book Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, and he has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper.

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

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

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

Rationalist International : http://www.rationalistinternational.net/

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

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Dr Robert M Price

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer. He teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus, including Deconstructing Jesus (2000), The Reason Driven Life (2006), Jesus is Dead (2007), Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority (2009), and The Case Against the Case for Christ (2010). A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003, and has written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance.He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. He is known in particular for his skepticism about the existence of Jesus as an historical figure, arguing in 2009 that Jesus may have existed but "unless someone discovers his diary or his skeleton, we'll never know."

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Greydon Square

Rapper Greydon Square drops by for a chat. Greydon Square (born Eddie Collins on September 28, 1981) is an American rapper. He is an Iraq War veteran and an outspoken atheist who promotes discussion on philosophical issues, as well as having studied physics full time before moving on to study computer science. Collins has been expressing himself through rap under his stage name of Greydon Square since 2004. Among his influences are Phil Collins, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, Cedric Williams, and The Bee Gees. His first album, Absolute, was released in 2004 and is no longer available. His follow-up album The Compton Effect, was released in 2007 after much delay. After being approached by several independent record labels and one major one, Collins created his own company to distribute the record. In 2008, he released his second album The CPT Theorem. The titles of these two albums are references to the city of Compton (also called CPT) where he grew up, and to the Compton effect and the CPT Theorem from physics, which he studies. His music deals with philosophical issues (particularly with regard to atheism and science), political issues, the war in Iraq and his experiences as a soldier who had to fight in this war, and his childhood which he had to spend in group homes. In 2010 he announced the release of his third studio album, The Kardashev Scale, along with an EP titled Serpents of Eden in collaboration with Adil Omar. He's also a confirmed guest on Omar's debut solo album The Mushroom Cloud Effect alongside Kool G Rap on a song titled "Summertime". The song titled "War Porn" from his latest album The Kardashev Scale was performed in collaboration with hip-hop artist Canibus

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Dr Massimo Pigliucci

Dr Massimo Pigliucci drops by to discuss his new book "Answers for Arsitotle" , philosophy and science. Massimo Pigliucci (born January 16, 1964) is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College. He is also the editor in chief for the journal Philosophy & Theory in Biology. He is an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education.

BigLundi & CreationLiberty Debate (10th April)

BigLundi takes on CreationLiberty from 10th April 2012 Creation Liberty Podcast : http://creationliberty.com/podcast.php CreationLiberty Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/creationliberty BigLundi : http://www.youtube.com/user/biglundi Click on annotation or click on responses to see BigLundi's post mortem of the debate. Also thanks to CreationLiberty for allowing me to record the debate on Lundi's behalf.

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Dr Victor J Stenger

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Dr Victor J Stenger Victor John Stenger (born January 29, 1935) is an American particle physicist, outspoken atheist, and author, now active in philosophy and popular religious skeptic. As of July 2012, he has published eleven books for general audiences on physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience, the latest of which include The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason, which was released in September 2009, The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: How the Universe is Not Designed for Humanity (2011), God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2012). He popularized the phrase "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings"

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Tombstone Da Deadman

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Tombstone Da Deadman Tombstone Da Deadman drops by for a chat with the TWL team Sub to him : http://www.youtube.com/user/rationalwarrior Buy his album here : http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tombstone-da-deadman/id514582989

The MSF_DWB charity event 2012 Skeptictv and Trolling with Logic Hour

Trolling With Logic & Skeptic TV's guest slot on the 24 hour Medicine Sans Frontiers / Doctors without borders. Find out about MSF here : http://www.msf.org.uk/ Find out more about Trolling With Logic here : http://www.trollingwithlogic.com And our good friends and rivals at Skeptic TV here : http://www.skeptictv.net/ Thanks to DPRjones for having us on the show : http://www.youtube.com/user/dprjones The original video can be found here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWXzy5leNZQ&feature=player_embedded Category:

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 12 IDIOT AWARD, Live PWNAGE and wrap-up

Hour 12 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the 12th and final hour the remaining TWL members announce the IDIOT of the year who then receives the famous Live PWNage treatment.

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 11 Lawrence Krauss

Hour 11 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the Eleventh hour Martymer81 & BifLundi chat to the world renowned physicist Dr Lawrence Krauss BigLundi : http://www.youtube.com/user/biglundi Martymer81 : http://www.youtube.com/user/martymer81

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 10 C0c0tpusprime

Hour 10 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the Tenth hour Emptywithoutbrain & Zulufightrunner chat to the scourge of Fox News, c0ct0pusprime Emptywithoutbrain : http://www.youtube.com/user/emptywithoutbrain Zulufightrunner : http://www.youtube.com/user/zulufightrunner c0ct0pusprime : http://www.youtube.com/user/c0ct0pusprime

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 9 Jeff Dee

Hour 9 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the Ninth hour Kitch2 & Zulu fightrunner chat to The Atheist Experience host Jeff Dee Thekitch2 : http://www.youtube.com/user/thekitch2 Zulufightrunner : http://www.youtube.com/user/zulufightrunner

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 8 Skeptic TV

Hour 8 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the Eighth hour TWL's good friends and rivals Skeptic TV with special guest DPRjones take over the airwaves for an hour to discuss "Speaking to the Dead" SkepticTV : http://www.youtube.com/user/skepticTVshow DPRjones : http://www.youtube.com/user/dprjones

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 7 Battle Of the Geeks : Martymer v Bionic Dance

Hour 7 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the seventh hour AngryWomble moderates the biggest debate of our time : Star Wars or Star Trek? Star Wars is being defended by BionicDance and making the case for Star Trek is TWL's martymer81 AngryWomble : http://www.youtube.com/user/angrywomble BionicDance : http://www.youtube.com/user/bionicdance Martymer81 : http://www.youtube.com/user/martymer81

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 6 Desertphile

Hour 6 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charityty show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the sixth hour Lundi and TheKitch interview Mr Gravity himself, Desertphile BigLundi : http://www.youtube.com/user/biglundi TheKitch2 : http://www.youtube.com/user/thekitch2 DesertPhile : http://www.youtube.com/user/desertphile

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 5 Coughlan & Damaxman

Hour 5 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour chairty show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the fifth hour we present an as expected high brow conversation with TWL's Damaxman and Well known youtube comedian / vlogger Richard "The Dick" Coughlan Coughlan616 : http://www.youtube.com/user/coughlan616 Damaxman : http://www.youtube.com/user/damaxman

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 4 The Philosophy Hour

Hour 4 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the forth hour Lundi and guests WisdominNature7 & SkepticalHeretic give a crash course in philosophy WisdominNature7 : http://www.youtube.com/user/wisdominnature7 Theskepticalheretic : http://www.youtube.com/user/theskepticalheretic

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 3 The non-Shermer hour

Hour 3 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can make up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the third hour, Michael Shermer is unable to make it so Kitch, Lundi & Martymer improvise and Lundi gets pwned by a thunderstorm. http://www.youtube.com/biglundi http://www.youtube.com/thekitch2 http://www.youtube.com/martymer81

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 2 Confession With Brother Dominique

Hour 2 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour chairty show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 In the second hour Brother Dominique takes some rather unique confession Brother dominique AKA Goxster : http://www.youtube.com/user/goxster Emptywithoutbrain : http://www.youtube.com/user/emptywithoutbrain Damaxman : http://www.youtube.com/user/damaxman

12 hour charity show for AHH - Hour 1 Introductions

Hour 1 of the Trolling With Logic 12 hour charity show in aid of Atheists Helping The Homeless Find out more about AHH here : http://www.atheistshelpingthehomeless.org/AHTH2/AHTH/index.php And if you missed the live show you can up for it by donating by credit card here : http://www.gofundme.com/gah1w And paypal donations here : http://tinyurl.com/ctuhs85 Here in the first hour the Trolling With Logic team introduce you to the night's entertainment and explain the charity angle with special guests: AHH co-founder Joe Zamekci : http://www.youtube.com/user/aajoeyjo And to explain why such charities are needed and give her details of what it is like to be homeless the youtube vlogger rriverstoneworks : http://www.youtube.com/user/rriverstone1

TWL Live! Biology panel

TWL Live! Biology panel with : TheKitch2 , DutchLiam84, BigLundi, AngryWomble & Martymer 81 Contact Trolling With Logic - Email : contact@trollingwithlogic Skype : trollingwithlogic Live every second sunday, 7PM UK TIME http://www.blogtv.com/people/trollingwithlogic Blog: http://www.blog.trollingwithlogic.com Stalk us on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/trollingWlogic Stalk us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/groups/136263453151744/ Listen to the audio here : http://ia600706.us.archive.org/18/items/TwlLive-BiologyPanel/TwlLive-BiologyPanel.mp3 Listen to Our Podcast like the Stalkers you are! http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/trolling-with-logic/id493666263 For non-Itunes wannabe stalkers: XML : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TrollingWithLogic?format=xml Feedburner : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TrollingWithLogic The author has placed this work in the Public Domain, thereby relinquishing all copyrights. Everyone is free to use, modify, republish, sell or give away this work without prior consent from anybody.

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Russell Glasser

Atheist Experience host Russell Glasser drops by for a chat. The Deepak Chopra quiz and questions from our chat-room. Hosts : Zulufightrunner, TheKitch2 & Martymer81 Special Guest : Russell Glasser

TWL LIVE! - Ken Ham Live PWNage!

The Trolling With Logic team, Assisted by members of Skeptic TV take on Ken Ham's "Do Animals Evolved" TheKitch2 as Pierce Brosnan : http://www.youtube.com/thekitch2 Martymer81 as Q : http://www.youtube.com/martymer81 BigLundi as Felix Leiter : http://www.youtube.com/biglundi SoundofScilence as Blofeld : http://www.youtube.com/soundofscilence AngryWomble as Jayne BlondeL http://www.youtube.com/angrywomble Also a call from 13Heathens : http://www.youtube.com/12heathens Contact Trolling With Logic - Email : contact@trollingwithlogic Skype : trollingwithlogic Live every second sunday, 7PM UK TIME http://www.blogtv.com/people/trollingwithlogic

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Arab Atheist Broadcasting

Trolling With Logic for 1st July 2012. ArabAtheistBroadcasting drop by for a chat. http://www.arabatheistbroadcasting.com/ Hosts: Zulufightrunner, Martymer81, TheKitch2 & BigLundi

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest - Don Baker

Atheist Experience host Don Baker drops by for a chat. The Deepak Chopra quiz and questions from our chat-room. Hosts : Zulufightrunner, TheKitch2, Martymer81, BigLundi, Emptywithoutbrain Special Guest : Martin Wagner

Trolling With Logic Live - Lee Strobel PWNAGE

Lee Strobel Gets the TWL LIVE PWNAGE! treatment. Hosts: Zulufightrunner, TheKitch2, Martymer81 & BigLundi Guests: AngryWomble & SoundOfScilence.

TWL LIVE! - EmptyWithoutBrain V VenomFangX - Society debate

Emptywihoutbrain debates VenomfangX on the subject of Atheist Society V Christian Society Also related calls and questions

TWL LIVE! - Special guest : Martin Wagner

Atheist Experience host Martin Wagner drops by for a chat, A rambling call about metaphysics and questions from our chat-room. Hosts : Zulufightrunner, TheKitch2 & Martymer81 Guests : AngryWomble & SoundofScilence Special Guest : Martin Wagner

TWL LIVE! - 22nd April 2012

TWL LIVE! 22nd April 2012 : Homeopath, Christian Word Games & 50 Reasons to Believe in God Hosts : ZuluFightrunner, TheKitch2, Martymer81, BigLundi & Emptywithoutbrain

TWL LIVE! - Easter Special

TWL Easter show : Easter Quiz, The Troll English Defender & 101 reasons for a young earth. Hosts : ZuluFightrunner, TheKitch2, Martymer81 & BigLundi Guests : Angrywomble & Lefayad1991

Trolling With Logic Live - Way of the Master PWNAGE

Way Of the Master Gets the TWL LIVE PWNAGE! treatment.

Hosts: Zulufightrunner, TheKitch2, Damaxman, Feredir28 & Martymer81
Guests: AngryWomble, SoundOfScilence, DutchLiam84 & Lefayad1991

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest : Bionic Dance

Everyone's favourite sci-fi loving lesbian , Bionic Dance Drops by for a chat with the TWL boys. We get trolled with silence, a huge philosophical battle with BigLundi and a Nutter from the English Defence League.

Hosts : ZuluFightrunner, TheKitch2, EmptyWithoutBrain, Martymer81, Feredir28 & Damaxman

TWL LIVE! - Special Guest : Joe Zamecki

The captain cool of Atheism , Joe Zamecki Drops by for a chat with the TWL boys. We talk about Atheist Activism, Atheist Experience, American Atehists and scary nazi bikers.

Hosts : Zulufightrunner, Thekitch2, Martymer81

Trolling With Logic Live - Kent Hovind PWNAGE Part II

The team conclude PWNing Kent Hovind's "100 reasons why evolution is so stupid" Live.

With: Zulufightrunner, Thekitch2, Admiralcasey18 & Martymer81.

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Responding to reformador7

During my recent escapades on Twitter, I have come across some delightfully idiotic creationists. One of whom is reformador7, who I challenged with Human Chromosome #2 as evidence for common ancestry. In response, he sent me a blog (http://www.twitlonger.com/show/fdidc9). To which this blog is a response to.


To start off, evolution is a done deal. There is far too much evidence in its favour to doubt it in lue of creationism, to do so would be either an act of extreme ignorance or self deception. There is evidence from all over biology, such as genetics, paleotology, biochemistry, comparative anatomy, developmental biology etc.
There are 3 areas I will address in this blog: 1) Human chromosome #2 is a fusion of two ape chromosomes, and proves common ancestry with apes, 2)Evolution of intelligence in Humans and 3) evolution of miRNAs.

First off why does chromosome 2 support common ancestry with apes? Well humans have 46 chromosome, apes have 48. In order for common ancestry to be correct, one chromosome has to be lost (which is determental) or two chromosomes fused. Fusion was suggested based on the banding patterns of humans and apes (Yanis and Prakash, 1982. Stanyon 1983). This was then confirmed by Molecular cytogenic data (Hastie and Allshire 1989, Clemente et al, 1990) and the location of the telomere to telomere fusion point located on the chromosomal band 2q13 (Ijdo et al, 1991, Luke and Verma, 1992). One strawman commited by reformador is that fusions produce new species. No one has said this, it's proof of our common ancestry, not THE speciation event. The Ninth Commandment is not optional people. At the end of the blog, he claims that Dr Millers statement that the only way that creationists can explain it is by "thats the way the designer made it", however he explains it by saying the designer made the chromosomal banding patterns similar, and apes and humans had the same number of chromosomes. However it is still thats the way the 'designer made it argument", only with a fusion step in, which is still only proof of a deceptive designer. Furthermore chromosome 2 can only be explained with fusion of two ape chromosomes becuase of the centromere of human chromosome 2 lines up with the chimp chromosome 2p chromosomal centromere (Ijdo et al, 1991) and at the place where we would expect it on the human chromosome we find the remnants of the chimp 2q centromere (Averello et al, 1992).



Figure 1: Kasai et al, 2000

He states in his blog "reliable eyewitness testimony is more powerful than circumstantial evidence in establishing historical details". To which I say this is utterly wrong, circumstancial evidence, is still evidence. However the evidence for evolution is beyond cricumstancial, and for the bible the evidence is lacking or contradictory (e.g the flood).

He brings up intelligence in humans. However like a typical creationist, he hasn't bothered to check the literature.One such article I found stated bipediality produced a larger brain (but blocked enlargement of the parturient canal and retarded further increases in the size of the brain). Changes in copulation behavior contributed to the evolution of language.Females further evolved language in order to take care of the infants. Male Homos accelerated food acquisition activities to provide the energy required to maintain a larger brain.Females who acquired the initiative in copulation begun to select male partners by their ability to provide food and security. By this sexual selection, the evolution of language was accelerated (Hattori,1998). He states that such advancements were never observed, and inferred because evolution has an atheistic base. Evolution doesn't have anything to say with god. In fact Dr. Miller who he refers to in this article is a practising Catholic.

Next our dear creationist friend tries to argue that miRNAs are proof of a god, and against evolution. MiRNAs are non coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the pretranslatory level. First off the evolution miRNAs is underexplored in the literature, this however does not mean it that it didn't evolve, it means we don't know how as of yet, as I stated previously, there is too much evidence in favour to support evolution to throw it out because we haven't researched an area of it yet. One study I found conducted the first systems-level analysis of human transcription factor (TF)-miRNA regulatory network. miRNAs have unique and even opposite evolutionary rules comparing with TFs and other protein-coding genes, suggesting that miRNAs may have unique functions and roles in various biological processes and disease (Chengxiang et al, 2010).The most interesting discovery from this study is that the evolutionary patterns of miRNAs are different from those of the TFs and other protein-coding genes at the network level (Chengxiang et al, 2010).


In conclusion, Reformadors quite long tweet did nothing but to highlight his own ignorance on the subject of science and his ability to strawman. For more information please check out the bibliography below.

TheKitch2 out!

References:
Fumio Kasai1, Ei-ichi Takahashi, Kumiko Koyama, Keiji Terao, Yumiko Suto1, Katsushi Tokunaga,Yusuke Nakamura, Momoki Hira (2000). Comparative FISH mapping of the ancestral fusion point of human chromosome 2. Chromosome Research. 8: 727-735.

Stanyon R (1983) A test of the karyotypic ¢ssioning theory of
primate evolution. Biosystems 16: 57-63.

Yunis JJ, Prakash O (1982) The origin of man: A chromosomal
pictorial legacy. Science 215: 1525-1530.

Clemente IC, Ponsa M, Garcia M, Egozcue J (1990) Evolution
of the simiiformes and the phylogeny of human chromosome.
Hum Genet 84: 493-506.

Hastie ND, Allshire RC (1989) Human telomeres: fusion and
interstitial sites. Trends Genet 5: 326-331.

Ijdo JW, Baldini A, Ward DC, Reeders ST, Wells RA (1991)
Origin of human chromosome 2: An ancestral telomere^telomere fusion. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88:9051-9055.

Luke S, Verma RS (1992) Origin of human chromosome 2. Nat Genet 2: 11-12

Hattori K (1998.Drivers of intelligence evolution in Homo: Sexual behavior, food acquisition and infant neoteny. Mankind Quaterly. 39 (2): 127-146.

Avarello R, Pedicini A, Caiulo A, Zuffardi O, Fraccaro M, Evidence for an ancestral alphoid domain on the long arm of human chromosome 2. Hum Genet 1992 May;89(2):247-9

Chengxiang Qiu1, Juan Wang1, Pengying Yao1, Edwin Wang,Qinghua Cui1 (2010). microRNA evolution in a human transcription factor and microRNA regulatory network. BMC Systems Biology. 4:90

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