Thu 1 Sep 2005
Loading ...Today on the internet, I discovered the new religion of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, or FSM. As a biologist, the controversy over Intelligent Design is always interesting, so I thought someone else might be interested in FSM as well.
What is Flying Spaghetti Monsterism? It is a “parody religion created to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution (Wikipedia Entry).”
It was begun by Bobby Henderson in June 2005 when he wrote a letter to the Kansas Board of Education supporting his theory of Intelligent Design, namely that the world and everything in it was created by a Flying Spaghetti Montster. There are now hundreds of sites about FSM, and there are even tshirts, logos, and bumper-stickers.
The original letter can be found here.
Responses from Board members can be found here.
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