Well, not exactly the "front"-front page. It's on the front page of the IDEAS section (Section B) of today's paper [In praise of an alternate creation theory: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster gains infamy and faith.Leslie Scrivener does a pretty good job of explaining what it's all about. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was set up to make fun of some of the arguments for the existence of God. If your argument for God also applies to the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (as most do), then how good is it?
The Toronto Star even has the picture (above) of the famous Michelangelo painting that's on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
I wonder what the appeasers have to say about the Flying Spaghetti Monster? I wonder if the agnostics are sincerely undecided about His existence?
I wonder what the appeasers have to say about the Flying Spaghetti Monster? I wonder if the agnostics are sincerely undecided about His existence?
ReplyDeleteAgnostics are no more agnostic over the FSM than we are about any other well-attested empirical fact. Why, that would be like being agnostic about, say, natural selection...
"I wonder what the appeasers have to say about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?"
ReplyDeleteRAmen?
So far as I can tell, the "appeasers" have quite a bit of fun with it.