Flying spaghetti monster defeats anti-evolution FL school board

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If you aren't familiar with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it asserts that an omnipotent, airborne clump of spaghetti intelligently designed all life with the touch of its "noodly appendage," and that He appears in "full pirate regalia." The Pastafarians, as the Church's believers call themselves, first came to national attention in 2005, when the Church's leader, twentysomething Bobby Henderson, wrote an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education when the evolution flap was going on there, insisting that students also be taught about the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (You can read more about the Church in this recent Wired Magazine article).

The Pastafarians appear to have grown in numbers quite a bit since 2005, and soon after the Ledger story appeared, Polk school board members were deluged with e-mails demanding that Flying Spaghetti Monsterism's version of intelligent design be taught in the classrooms alongside evolution and the "alternative" ID theory.

And the school board members didn't hear from just the Pastafarians. Local residents wrote scathing letters to the Ledger criticizing the school board members' positions:
- "It looks as if Polk County School Board members Fields, Harris, Lofton, Sellers and possibly Cunningham would have us return to those dark days of yesteryear when the old men who wove the creation fairy tale believed Earth was the center of the universe and that it was flat," wrote one Ledger reader. - "Look out Polk County - as long as our School Board considers flouting science standards, we will remain Hillbilly USA," wrote another local citizen.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/26/72046/268/826/426324
 
What an awesome story. Now Christians, prove that the Flying Speghetti monster doesn't exit:)
 
kaneda said:
61% of Americans are still creationists, so still Hillbilly USA.
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Do they really believe the Grand Canyon is 6,000 years old? Or are they simply saying so to stick it to the infidels? Don't underestimate what rigorous indoctrination in xenophobic areas will get people to claim to believe. They don't really believe it at all.
 
Ganymede said:
What an awesome story. Now Christians, prove that the Flying Speghetti monster doesn't exit:)
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We normally ask every believer of an ethereal being to prove its existence. So in the interest of fair play I think the onus is on the FSM believers to prove the owner of the Noodly Appendage actually exists. When you proclaim a fictional deity after a period of denouncing every deity ever imagined by civilized man I think its a classic case of 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' or you've run out of arguments.

Personally I like FSM because it parodies real life. Like every divine creature, we can prove FSM exists in the minds of men and women but that's all.
 
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