Upon more thoroughly reading the anti-creationism resolution and report to be voted on next week by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (mentioned in the previous post), specific attention should be called to something which appears on page eleven.
“[I]n accordance with the principle of an open attitude to the alternative theories advocated by the scientific creationists, and in order to show the illogicality of teaching intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution, a movement has, ironically, developed in the United States. The so-called Pastafarian movement supports the theory of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarianism is a parody on religion created in response to the decision of the Kansas State Board of Education to permit the teaching of intelligent design in science courses on an equal footing with the theory of evolution. According to Pastafarianism, an invisible and omniscient being called the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe in one day. The supporters of Pastafarianism are demanding the same place in the school curricula as intelligent design. Full of irony, this pseudo-religion is setting a trend and the cult is spreading.
Truly we must live in an age of signs and wonders if the Flying Spaghetti Monster makes an appearance in an official document of a body such as the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.
