Last week, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the stars of MythBusters, were in town to accept the 2008 Outstanding Lifetime Award in Cultural Humanism from the Harvard Humanist Society.
Adam, who is not only an atheist but, as he mentions, a fourth-generation atheist, delivered a wonderful acceptance speech that references Carlos Castaneda’s philosophical tome “The Eagle’s Gift” as his inspiration to expand his consciousness through science and reason. The folks at BoingBoing not only transcribed the speech, they made a cool looking webpage just to display it.
Jamie’s remarks haven’t been similarly posted yet, although one commenter at that link who was apparently there said that he started off by saying “What he said.”
I think I’ll switch teams and worship Adam.