THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!! I actually didn’t find out
about the flying spaghetti monster until last semester, but I felt it was
representative of the irony behind the reasoning for teaching “intelligent
design” in the classroom: the bible thumpers complain that intelligent design
should be taught in the classrooms for the sake of providing a balanced
education, an education that does not promote secularism (assuming evolution is
secular). With the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it uses the same argument as the
bible thumpers, but it makes the case, that if we are going to teach intelligent
design (which is Christian based) for the sake of being balanced and inclusive,
then we should teach students about the flying spaghetti monster. Needless to
say that didn’t jive well with the bible thumpers J
The other thing this article made me think of is the
historical contrast between knowledge and faith. A literary archetype that
exists is that the more educated/knowledgeable/conscious you are, the less
faith you have…. I’ve always found that interesting.
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