The debate over teaching evolution in Kansas public schools has caught the attention of a cross-country Internet community of satirists.
In the past few weeks, hundreds of followers of the supreme Flying Spaghetti Monster have swamped state education officials with urgent e-mails.
They argue that since the conservative majority of the State Board of Education has blessed classroom science standards at the behest of intelligent design supporters, which criticize evolution, they want the gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster taught.
Now we are talking! Now this is mythology that I can get behind. To me a flying spaghetti monster makes so much more sense then the bearded man in the clouds. It kind of makes me wonder what other creation beliefs might be dredged up, or created, and thrown into the fray. This could be interesting.
