The timeless truth of creation

Have you heard about Flying Spaghetti Monsterism? FSM is a four-month-old ''religion" founded on the belief that the universe was created by an invisible flying clump of spaghetti and meatballs. This blob of pasta, FSM's ''followers" say, uses its ''noodly appendage" to play an ongoing role in human affairs. For example, it tampers with carbon-dating tests to make the planet seem older than it is, so that any evidence of evolution is actually the work of the spaghetti monster.

It does say that when such evidence appears, researchers should take it into account,

It does say that when such evidence appears, researchers should take it into account...

We are all holding or breath waiting for someone in the ID camp to say what shape or form that evidence would be.

So far, it seems to be that science doesn't know everything.

FSM was concocted in June by Bobby Henderson, a recent college graduate with a degree in physics. When the Kansas Board of Education took up the question of teaching intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, Henderson wrote an open letter (posted at www.venganza.org) demanding equal classroom time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism as well.

Proof that left wing idiots come in all shapes and sizes.

In truth, intelligent design isn't a scientific theory but a restatement of a timeless argument: that the regularity and laws of the natural world imply a higher intelligence — G-d, most people would say — responsible for its design. Intelligent design doesn't argue that evidence of design ends all questions or disproves Darwin. It doesn't make a religious claim. It does say that when such evidence appears, researchers should take it into account, and that the weaknesses in Darwinian theory should be acknowledged as forthrightly as the strengths [emphases added].

1) "intelligent design isn't a scientific theory." No comment necessary.

2) "when such evidence appears." What evidence?

. . .As always, those who challenge the reigning orthodoxy face repercussions. In April, the science journal Nature interviewed Caroline Crocker, a molecular microbiologist at George Mason University. Because ''she mentioned intelligent design while teaching her second-year cell-biology course . . . she has been barred by her department from teaching both evolution and intelligent design." Other skeptics of Darwinism choose to keep silent. When Nature approached another researcher, he refused to speak for fear of hurting his chance to get tenure.
If intelligent design proponents were peddling Biblical creationism, the hostility aimed at them would make sense. But they aren't. Unlike creationism, which denied the earth's ancient age or that biological forms could evolve over time, intelligent design makes use of generally accepted scientific data and agrees that falsification, not revelation, is the acid test of scientific validity.

In truth, intelligent design isn't a scientific theory but a restatement of a timeless argument: that the regularity and laws of the natural world imply a higher intelligence — G-d, most people would say — responsible for its design. Intelligent design doesn't argue that evidence of design ends all questions or disproves Darwin. It doesn't make a religious claim. It does say that when such evidence appears, researchers should take it into account, and that the weaknesses in Darwinian theory should be acknowledged as forthrightly as the strengths. That isn't primitivism or Bible-thumping or flying spaghetti. It's science.

If you're hoping for tenure, you'd better acknowledge only the strengths.

Wlecome manny613

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism FSM is a four-month-old religion.

If you can, go back a few months here and look at what the Cosmo-Evo Evo-Cosmo cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster put right here on these boards.

They were all over that stuff. Some of the same ones will ridicule you here.

Images of the Last Dinner with Jesus replaced by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and so on, they were all giddy about it. And these are the great minds /sarc>

Now its coming back to the source, and thats where it will stay. Funny how that works.

Wolf

At least Henderson couched his disdain for intelligent design in humor. Other Darwinists, many steeped in ideological antipathy to religion, resort to insult and invective.

This is a good point.

The quote I like to use about the FSM is:
Parody is a lot of fun. And parody begets more parody, especially on the Internet. It's contagious.
Did the god of your parody religion die for you?

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