Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

From the Associated Press: When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a satirical pseudo-deity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose growing pop culture fame gets laughs but also raises serious questions about the essence of religion.

There's no more scientific basis for intelligent design than there is for the idea an omniscient creature made of pasta created the universe. If intelligent design supporters could demand equal time in a science class, why not anyone else? The only reasonable solution is to put nothing into sciences classes but the best available science.

"I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; one third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence," Henderson sarcastically concluded.

Read it all. And then, on a somewhat more serious note (honest) consider the church of the Moo shoo Burrito.

Posted by Jim Naughton on November 17, 2007 12:41 PM | |
Comments (2)

And some of us remain spagnostic.

Posted by John B. Chilton [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 17, 2007 12:48 PM

And I thought pastafarian was the worst pun to come out of the FSM movement! sputter!

Posted by Helen Thompson (Gallycat) [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 17, 2007 1:04 PM

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