Title: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
sf49erfan - May 12, 2008 02:02 PM (GMT)
The first public exposure of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CoFSM) and its eponymous deity can be dated to January 2005, when Bobby Henderson, describing himself as a concerned citizen, sent an open letter regarding the FSM to the Kansas State Board of Education. The letter was sent prior to the Kansas evolution hearings as an argument against the teaching of intelligent design in biology classes. Intelligent design was thought of as a way to teach creationism in the public school system without mentioning the name "God". Henderson stated that both his theory and intelligent design had equal validity; saying
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| "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 explained, "I don't have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. If there is a god and he's intelligent, then I would guess he has a sense of humor." |
The Board only responded after Henderson posted the letter on his website, gaining significant public interest. Henderson subsequently published the responses he received from Board members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Stringaling - May 14, 2008 11:51 AM (GMT)
Foolish sarcasm on the part of people who are supposed to be intellegent works against them in their persuit of validity.
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Basil - May 14, 2008 07:19 PM (GMT)
"The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."
It reminds me of the sarcastic Russian cosmonaut, on one of the first manned space flights, remarking that he didn't see any God out there. When it comes to scientific method, you're very limited in what you can observe. You can only observe natural phenonmenon, and draw definite conclusions if the event is repeatable. Evolution occurs so slowly, that all scientists can do is collect data and make hypothesis based on that collection. Sometimes the connections they draw may be flat out wrong, based on creative imaginations. I've read of a few events where scientists really stretched the fossil evidence to try and prove they'd found the missing link between human and apes, but time and time again we find that the bones discovered were not even human/age, or that they mixed different bones, or filled in huge gaps to create what they hoped they had found. See the Nebraska man, for one. (If there was a "missing link" there'd be millions of fossils of each stage between, since evolution occurs over millions of years!).
God doesn't force Himself upon us. If He gave irrefutable physiological proof, that would defeat the point of us coming to Him in faith. We look at the world and some can dismis everything as natural physiological processes acting free of divine power. In reality there are no natural laws, but all things work according to the will of God. The Holy Spirit is everywhere present and fills all things, filling them with life and the attributes God has willed them to have. We learn about God through the consistency of gravity, the complexity of the universe, etc.
It reminds me of the sarcastic Russian cosmonaut, on one of the first manned space flights, remarking that he didn't see any God out there. When it comes to scientific method, you're very limited in what you can observe. You can only observe natural phenonmenon, and draw definite conclusions if the event is repeatable. Evolution occurs so slowly, that all scientists can do is collect data and make hypothesis based on that collection. Sometimes the connections they draw may be flat out wrong, based on creative imaginations. I've read of a few events where scientists really stretched the fossil evidence to try and prove they'd found the missing link between human and apes, but time and time again we find that the bones discovered were not even human/age, or that they mixed different bones, or filled in huge gaps to create what they hoped they had found. See the Nebraska man, for one. (If there was a "missing link" there'd be millions of fossils of each stage between, since evolution occurs over millions of years!).
God doesn't force Himself upon us. If He gave irrefutable physiological proof, that would defeat the point of us coming to Him in faith. We look at the world and some can dismis everything as natural physiological processes acting free of divine power. In reality there are no natural laws, but all things work according to the will of God. The Holy Spirit is everywhere present and fills all things, filling them with life and the attributes God has willed them to have. We learn about God through the consistency of gravity, the complexity of the universe, etc.