9.12.05   
    Touched by His Noodly Appendage
I've decided that the best topic for today is spaghetti. Who doesn't love spaghetti? I love spaghetti, you love spaghetti, thing loves spaghetti. Spaghetti �ber alles.
First on today's menu is the creation of the universe. You may have heard arguments over the Kansas School Board's notion to teach the theory of Intelligent Design alongside Evolution in public school science classes.
I for one am against it. It may seem unfair to the religious right running our country that one theory gets all the spotlight in our nation's education system while all the others are shot down, but science isn't about fairness.
Furthermore, Intelligent Design has nothing to do with science. The theory of evolution is taught in science class because it was researched and observed by the use of logic.
Intelligent Design is based on myth. Supposedly the theory of Intelligent design is scientific, but I haven't seen any legitimate claims for that idea to this date.
Now, there's nothing wrong with teaching this theory in public schools; however, social studies is a better place for this theory than science. Better yet, why not just have a seperate class
teaching the Intelligent deisgn theory? This is far more logical than throwing a half-assed "theory" in with the science curriculum.
Unfortunately, if the conservatives in favor of intelligent design win, children in Kansas will be forced to learn fairy tales of unicorns and rainbows in their science classes.
Enter Bobby Henderson: 25 year-old programmer and self-proclaimed messenger of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Mr. Henderson
always believed that religion does not belong in the science classroom, but after hearing
about the propostion to have intelligent design taught in Kansas schools, he decided that, on behalf of the Pastafarian believers,
he must fight in the name of fairness to have his and many others' belief of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism taught as part of the science curriculum.
Pastafarians believe that the universe and all within was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Henderson's argument is, if intelligent design is recognized as a scientific theory like evolution, then Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
deserves equal time in the classroom as well. I couldn't agree with him more.