CNN - Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster

[Poiuyt]

(AP) -- 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.
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The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

Supporters of intelligent design hold that the order and complexity of the universe is so great that science alone cannot explain it. The concept's critics see it as faith masquerading as science.

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"We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it," Henderson wrote. As for scientific evidence to the contrary, "what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. pirate kick... Ahoy maties!

[ixion]

2. all hail the FSP

:rofl: :woohoo:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Well, it is the Holiday Season.

I notice pasta sauce is already on the store shelves.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Long live the Flying Spaghetti Monster, hail to the maker of the Universe!

or at least a top notch pasta dish

:-)

[Swamp Rat]

5. The Flying Spaghetti Monster made me recommend this thread.

I swear I did not do it all by myself.

:D

[Gloria]

6. Go for it!!!!

[AntiFascist]

7. Yum, paaastaaaa....

Seriously, it was a Catholic priest who came up with the Big Bang theory, and Einstein even disagreed with him because the theory didn't seem elegant. You'd think religious people would embrace science because it points to evidence that the universe had an origin.

[WFF]

8. I feel like I'm in the presence of a greater being

Now, where's the clam sauce?

[symbolman]

9. as a card carrying UberHuman

of the Church of the SubGenius, I believe that anything is possible, even Me.. :)