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

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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