I have seen this term used not only on Yahoo Answers but other venues as well. Who started this termonology? Can any share the philosophy behind the phenomnon?
2007-03-11 15:50:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks for the link and information. Very informative! And interesting!
2007-03-11 16:12:23 · update #1
A professor at a university some where in Kansas. I read some where that it started because the university did not want to teach intelligent design and was denying it completely while the professor believed that both intelligent design and natural selection should be looked at. but people started taking it on and now it's like a whole new religion started in 2005.
2007-03-11 15:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by Love Exists? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone proposed it as an alternative idea when the board of education in Pennsylvania (some sources say Kansas) wanted to make it mandatory that both creationism and evolution be taught in schools. The person's point was that if you were going to open the school to alternative ideas, you had to teach every alternative idea, including the theory of the flying spaghetti monster.
2016-03-29 00:51:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a parody religion created to refute some of the arguments in the Kansas State Board of Education case regarding teaching intelligent design. It has since taken off as a pop culture hit.
See the arguments related to pirates and global warming for how this shows the fallacy in some of the ID arguments.
2007-03-11 15:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some atheist dude wanted to show the ridiculousness of religion so he posted an ad offering salvation if people believed in the flying spaghetti monster. Some people wrote to him and asked to be let in on the ground floor of the religion., soon he was printing tshirts and selling memberships to his " church" Now there are a lot of people who quote the flying spaghetti monster when they want to make fun of people who really have faith in God.
2007-03-11 16:18:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's always been and will always be.
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
...Stephen F Roberts
2007-03-11 16:09:07 · answer #5 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our gracious prophet Bobby Henderson, by the grace of his Holy Noodly Sauce said so: http://www.venganza.org
May you be touched by His Noddly Appendage!
RaMen.
2007-03-11 15:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe its FSM is from Atheist origins. The FSM is kinda like..
a anti-God, God. if you get what i mean..
its like..
expanding some Christian things up to rediculous proportions.
2007-03-11 15:54:28 · answer #7 · answered by uhohspaghettiohohs 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
OMG! (the spaghetti one) OMFG! (still the spaghetti one) BLASPHEMY! you imply that my god was created!?!? He always was there!! He does not "originate"! He always was! This is infuriating!
2007-03-11 16:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. Zaius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is the official site. It is all there:
http://www.venganza.org/
2007-03-11 15:53:44 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
He is the one and only. He has always been.
2007-03-11 15:55:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋