Bobby Henderson is the creator and prophet of the parody religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (sometimes abbreviated as FSM). The followers of this religion are known as 'pastafarians'. A recent parody religion, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism was created in 2005 to protest a decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. ... The Flying Spaghetti Monster is typically depicted, as in this parody of Michelangelos The Creation of Adam, as a clump of tangled spaghetti with two eyestalks, two meatballs, and many noodly appendages. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion founded by Bobby Henderson in 2005...

Henderson created the religion in 2005 in a letter written to the Kansas State Board of Education, arguing their decision to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. On the site and in the letter, Henderson professes belief in a supernatural Creator entity that resembles spaghetti and meatballs, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and suggests that FSMism should be taught in science classrooms, essentially arguing a reductio ad absurdum against the teaching of Intelligent Design. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The legal status of creation and evolution in public education is the subject of a great deal of debate in legal, political and religious circles, mainly in the United States. ... Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. ... A speculative phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. ... The supernatural (Latin: super- exceeding + nature) refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. ... God is the divine being that created the omniverse. ... Spaghetti in a bowl. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Reductio ad absurdum (Latin for reduction to the absurd, traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη, reduction to the impossible, often used by Aristotle) is a type of logical argument where we assume a claim for the sake of argument, arrive at an absurd result, and then conclude the original assumption must...

He also recently penned the gospel of FSM. The Gospel of The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a holy text written by Bobby Henderson that is considered to be the main text of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), a parody religion mocking Intelligent Design (ID). ...