The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Funny title?  Funny character too.

But it was created for something serious.  It's the icon of a scientific argument, if only you can see through it.

The Flying spaghetti monster (popular as the FSM), created (rather discovered, as the creator puts it) in 2005 has become an internet phenomenon in quite a short time, that it has a website of its own, and millions of followers all over the world. I stumbled upon the FSM in a book I was reading lately and I was eager to know more about it. I searched wiki the next day and I landed on a page with the title 'The Flying Spaghetti Monster'. There's everything with wiki,  but you see only what you look for. I'm sure most have not read or known about the FSM till now. The description on wiki is pretty elaborate with proper references, hence reliable. You might want to read it :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

In Jan 2005, agitated at the plans of the state board of education of Kansas, USA,  to introduce the teaching of intelligent design along with the that of evolution in science textbooks , Bobby Henderson, a 25 year old physics  graduate sent an open letter to the board, stating that he and a few people around him  have come to believe that the world was created by an invisible and all-powerful 'Flying Spaghetti Monster', and that this version of 'intelligent design' be also be given equal time in science classes.  You can read the letter here :
 http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8EANdpAj0&feature=player_embedded#!

Henderson later published the letter on his site,and the Flying Spaghetti Monster became famous on the internet in no time. Henderson later with the help of others, wrote the book 'Gospel of the flying Monster', in which describes in detail about the religion of the FSM, which he calls 'Pastafarianism'. It is the funniest book i have ever read.

By this concept, what he was trying to convey was that religion can never pose as science. The idea of a 'invisible, untouchable, all powerful being' can be fulfilled by anything like the FSM. There is another 'unicorn' theory. The existence of an imaginary being can never be proved wrong. That doesn't hold that it is true. It is indeed difficult for mankind to know the exact events behind the origin of life on earth, because most of the evidences get destroyed in the course of time. We are lucky to have a few precious ones. The available evidences leave lot of gaps. That doesn't mean that those  gaps can be filled in by the introduction of an 'supernatural, invisible' CREATOR out of nowhere!!  As long as there is a 'natural' and 'possible' theory of evolution into which the evidences neatly fit in, a 'supernatural' theory of 'intelligent design' is not needed.

(please leave your comments regarding the FSM)