Intelligent Design vs. The Flying Spaghetti Monster Theory

[Sandpiper]

OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design to be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.

It is for this reason that I’m writing you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught in your schools, along with the other two theories. In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you do not agree to do this, we will be forced to proceed with legal action. I’m sure you see where we are coming from. If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.

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http://www.venganza.org/

[lazarus]

1. Nice to see some publicity

I, too, have been touched by his noodly appendage.

[48pan]

2. Spaghetti is good! Yum! n/t

[brainshrub]

3. This letter is 100% correct.

I was blessed with His Noodly Appendage years ago. All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

[caty]

4. "Intelligent" Design???

Shouldn't it be "Fanatsy" Design? If our country doesn't step up and do what needs to be done to improve the quality of education in this country, our future and place in this world is in peril. How can our children face the problems of the future when their education is lacking in science and they are being taught fairy tales instead.:dunce:

[lfairban]

5. Glaring contradiction in Intelligent Design

If an organism is so complex that it could only have been created by an intelligent design by a superior more complex entity such as God, then who created God? A super God? And who then created the Super-God?

This is akin to the woman who believed in the flat earth theory, ". . . turtles all the way down."

I wondered if anyone else had thought of this, of course someone has:

"To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer. You have to say something like 'God was always there', and if you allow yourself that kind of lazy way out, you might as well just say 'DNA was always there', or "Life was always there', and be done with it. --Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design p. 141"

http://skepdic.com/intelligentdesign.html

Intelligent Design, Evolution, and the strange things that happen when you are playing poker

To justify evolution, one must consider the unfathomable amount of time involved and the combination of random events, natural processes and natural selection. Consider if you will, what I call the crazy poker hand analysis.

For instance, last night I was playing Texas Hold'em online, and I got the same exact starting hand twice in a row, the Ace Jack of Spades. You might think this is a once in a lifetime event, but my wife tells me the same thing happened to me a week ago. I had forgotten because that time it was King Duce off-suit, which is not a very good starting hand. Anyway, the odds of this happening are 2652 to one. If I play about 50 hands a night, five nights a week, it will happen once about every ten weeks. That is still rare but hardly once in a lifetime.

Stranger things have happened, once I bet high pre-flop with a pair of Kings and got two callers. When the cards were turned up at the end of the hand one another person had Ks also, and another had a pair of Jacks.

As one person pointed out, if you play enough hands of poker, sooner or later, everything happens. I am still waiting to flop a Royal Flush, but I have seen someone else do it.

[bridgit]

6. dear sir, we here @ 'the soleil moon fry institute'...

for the advanced study of: design via das monster intelligence mit der stringy-bang w/theoretical membrane' & spaghetti galore; strongly urge here, that where it is the case, (& certainly it is the case) that the kansas state bored of schools :rofl: is unable to nuance the 'just how it is' that there are such notions as flesh eating flowers & tail growing lizards :shrug: that they are to cease & desist all such tomfoolery as may be alluded to by them as 'education' posthaste, sir, if not fifteen minutes ago.

TIME IS OF THE ESSENSE...more or less = and so it is that:

well, doi! "design" is "intelligent"; and so it is not with a measure of trepidation, that the council of: 'proper smart people', has filed the pertinent requisition, and in timely manner; that will switch the polar fields lest these matters; the teaching of OUR noble cause, be joined in earnest.

the burden will then be born by the kansas state bored of schools :rofl: as there simply aren't enough days in the school year to re-instruct all as to the soon to be fact that they will need to flip the light switch up for off & down for on (mercury switches notwithstanding)

kansas state bored of schools :rofl: you are urged here to resist your natural inclination to be futile
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

[Redstone]

7. And I want equal time, too, because I know the REAL truth:

It is expounded by the followers of Basbo the Bewildered, an itinerant steel-mill puddler who resides in a packing crate just outside Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

He tells us that we were created by a team of demented genetic engineers from the planet Arxx during a drunken spree on what passes for their Saturday night.

After sobering up and seeing how badly they had botched their attempt to create a self-winding garbage disposal, they hid the evidence in the most godforsaken corner of the galaxy they could find, and sped off as fast as their hangovers would carry them back to civilization.

We can now only redeem ourselves as failed Arxxian creations by making a sincere effort to fulfill our intended role as garbage disposals by eating only at fast-food establishments when out, or prepackaged dinner food products when at home. Only then will the Arxxians raise us up and install us in our ordained place in the Kitchen Sink Drain of the Universe.

We'll see your kids in school soon enough. Equal time with the Intelligent Designers, and all that.

Redstone