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The Flying Spaghetti Monster Theory of Creation, as detailed in a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education. Excerpt:
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.
See the e-mails too, and “an artistic drawing of Him creating a mountain, trees, and a midget.”
Via UO habitué and new daddy Phillip J. Birmingham!
Comment by Jeremy Osner —
September 30, 2005 @ 7:05 am
Hey speaking of the FSM, did you notice The Poor Man put up a rare photo of His feline incarnation? Check it out.
Comment by Mr.Obscura —
September 30, 2005 @ 7:54 am
Have you been touched by His Noodly Appendage?
Comment by Dennis Harlow —
September 30, 2005 @ 8:11 am
See also Unintelligent design.
Comment by Johnathan Pearce —
September 30, 2005 @ 8:36 am
Can I have bolognese sauce and extra cheese topping with that?
Comment by the talking dog —
September 30, 2005 @ 8:54 am
It is amazing about the American system that everyone thinks that it is so wonderful, that it can continue to operate, forever, unaided, by anyone without any technical knowledge of anything.
It comes as no surprise that the President– a man who apparently never had to actually work or use rigor or effort for anything in his life besides his time in the 3-mile cross-country run– immediately embraced “intelligent design” (notwithstanding the paradox that something called that might actually be responsible for having created him.)
Anyway, Americans overwhelmingly prefer an arbitrary, irrational MIRACLE MAKER, who will come through and make everything a.o.k., because, hey, it sure beats rigorous thought and effort, and having to spend all that time learning to, like, WORK IT OUT YOURSELF…
Just as in the last two elections, we preferred the class clown to the (alleged) Poindexter, so as an intellectual matter, we Ameircans prefer the least plausible, but EASIEST TO UNDERSTAND explanations of the universe… its good to see that so many American parents want to give their children the gifts of ignorance and superstition that have served THEM so well…
Fortunately, in our family, we are doing our share, and preparing to become… pirates! SOMEONE has got to do their part to stop global warming before its too late!!! Ay, mateys… arrrrr…
Comment by matthew hogan —
September 30, 2005 @ 12:18 pm
“Nipples. On men!?” — The Evil Genius (aka the devil), in the movie Time Bandits, complaining of the Supreme Being’s incompetent creation.
Comment by sampo —
September 30, 2005 @ 12:59 pm
Your blog is good!
Welcome to my daily reading list.
Comment by PhillipJ. Birmingham —
September 30, 2005 @ 3:11 pm
Heheh, thanks for the link! Here’s hoping my fifteen minutes of diminished obscurity doesn’t go to my head!
Comment by dsquared —
September 30, 2005 @ 6:59 pm
I am currently writing a textbook on “Intelligent Design” which I hope to sell to the Red States. It is based on Hume’s “Inquiry into the Principles of Human Understanding”, making the point that all that one can ever deduce from an Argument From Design even if accepted is that the world was made by something that was able to make worlds and that any further assumption of specifically Christian doctrine would be unscientific.
Comment by Jim Henley —
September 30, 2005 @ 8:56 pm
Your blog is good!
Welcome to my daily reading list.
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Another disenchanted liberal reader in the making!
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But thanks.
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d2: yeah. Be a hard sell though. And an awful lot of work to pad the point out to book
length.
Comment by Tom Scudder —
October 1, 2005 @ 1:55 am
So is Flying Spaghetti Monsterism doctrinally compatible with Invisible Pink Unicornism?
Comment by Ray —
October 1, 2005 @ 3:17 am
I’m afraid not. We should probaby teach that controversy too, to be on the safe side.
Comment by Jeremy Osner —
October 1, 2005 @ 6:50 am
Just a still-enchanted liberal reader chiming in to say that your blog is good and on my daily reading list.