Bobby Henderson's Flying Spaghetti Monster becomes an Internet hit

Bobby Henderson's Flying Spaghetti Monster becomes an Internet hit:
Bobby Henderson's Flying Spaghetti Monster becomes an Internet hit
Saturday, September 10, 2005
JOHN FOYSTON



Folks proposing intelligent design as an alternative to the theory of evolution should recognize as brothers in arms -- er, tentacles -- the Pastafarians, who seek equal time for the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

'I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster,' wrote Bobby Henderson in a recent letter to the Kansas State Board of Education. Henderson, 25, lives in Roseburg and is hoping that someone will offer him a job that doesn't make his head explode, as he puts it.

Judging from his summer, he's had some spare time since his last job as a software development engineer. Enough to become the head prophet of Flying Spaghetti Monster in response to the Kansas education board's recent proposed new science education standards, which open the way for intelligent design to be taught along with the traditional theory of evolution."