Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage speech

[leo-rcc]

The Mythbusters have received the Harvard Humanism Award last week. This is a link to Adam Savage's speech to the Harvard Humanism Society.

http://www.boingboing.net/features/savage.html

Quote:I want to start by saying that, to me, any discourse from me about how one can live a moral existence without religion or the church would sound improperly defensive. That there's an opposite to be defended is absurd and based on a provably false premise. So let's dispense with that.

(To be clear: I'm referring to the humanist axiom "Good without God," whereby "good" means morality. It's provably false that there exists no morality outside of religion, therefore the statement sounds defensive to me.)

[lukec]

Really sweet, good find. I'm glad it's transcribed, too- I hate listening to speeches when I can read them in a fraction of the time.

[tavarish]

Wow, no wonder that's one of my favorite shows.

Actually, I realize that my favorite shows are all run by atheists:

South Park
Mythbusters
Family Guy
Top Gear

[Rhizomorph13]

I liked that so much I posted it to Facebook. More people should be exposed to those ideas.