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ATTENTION: Please refrain from adding unencyclopedic content to this article. If you feel the need to present the FSM in a humorous manner, please do so on Uncyclopedia: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster Thank you. --> 's '' The Creation Of Adam '', as a clump of tangled Spaghetti with two eyestalks, two Meatball s, and many "noodly appendages".]] The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a Parody Religion founded by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Decision By The Kansas State Board Of Education to require the teaching of Intelligent Design as an alternative to biological Evolution . He was inspired by the movie Six-String Samurai which features an imaginary monster used to frighten the kid by the hero. In an Open Letter on his website, Henderson professes belief in a Supernatural Creator entity that resembles Spaghetti and Meatball s, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and calls for FSMism to be taught in science classrooms, essentially arguing a Reductio Ad Absurdum against the teaching of Intelligent Design. The followers of The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) call themselves Pastafarians, a play on Rastafarians . BELIEFS Many of the beliefs proposed by Henderson were intentionally chosen to parody arguments commonly set forth by proponents of Intelligent Design . It should be noted that Bobby Henderson specifically says that Dogma is ''not'' a part of FSMism; that is to say, no FSM belief is believed to be completely undisputable. For example, should some new evidence show that it would have been impossible for the first man to have been a " Midgit "
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Pirates Pirates are a major component of the Pastafarian belief system. Pirates are supposedly "absolute divine beings" in Pastafarianism. The origin of the inclusion of pirates into Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is linked back to the original letter to the Kansas State Board of Education that began the mock religion itself. In it, Henderson explains that "global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s." He included this chart in the letter: The chart shows the correlation between the increase in average global temperature and the decrease in the number of living pirates. The graph is obviously misleading; the gaps between the approximate number of pirates for each given year are nearly all different, but the spaces between them on the chart are the same. Yet, there is indeed a statistically significant inverse correlation between global warming and number of pirates. This is most likely an intentional disregard for the fact that Correlation Is Not Causation ; irrespective of the rationale for the inclusion of this particular example, it clearly shows that two things that cannot have any causal relationship can nevertheless have a statistically significant correlation. Thus, many things that people might argue are "related" are actually only "associated", like number of pirates and global warming. According to '' The Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster '', Pirates are greatly misunderstood. For example, the book states that the standard image of pirates as " Thieves and Outcasts " is all Misinformation spread by Christian Theologians of the Middle Ages . It claims that what pirates were really like back in their Golden Age (which occurred 2500 years ago in FSM Mythology ) were " Peace -loving Explorers and spreaders of good will" who would "distribute Candy to passing children, thus establishing what is now known as Halloween ". The book also claims that pirates were the original Pastafarians. The Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" The Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts" are the Pastafarian equivalent of the Ten Commandments . They originate from the '' Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster ''. They were given to Pirate Mosey, the FSM equivalent of Moses , by the Flying Spaghetti Monster himself. There were originally ten, but two were dropped "on the way down the mountain". The lack of the two last I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts supposedly partly accounts for Pastafarians' self-proclaimed flimsy moral standards. DEVELOPMENTS The site was featured on , Something Awful and Fark.com soon followed. game. ] In August 2005, in response to a challenge from a reader, BoingBoing.net announced a $250,000 challenge , later raised to $1,000,000 of "Intelligently Designed currency" by other bloggers, payable to any individual who could produce Empirical evidence proving that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, though Jesus is not a part of, or worshipped in, Pastafarianism. The challenge is modeled after a similar challenge issued by creationist Kent Hovind (who will award $250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution "is the only possible way" that the Universe and life arose), which has been criticized by scientists as being logically flawed in design[http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA341.html]. The Gospel See Also: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster In December 2005, Bobby Henderson received a reported , 2006 and may now be ordered at online and traditional bookstores. The book displays a very sense of humor. SEE ALSO
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