With millions of devout worshippers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs.
In 2005, the Kansas State Board of Education voted to require that public schools include the theory of "intelligent design" as a viable alternative to the Darwinian theory of evolution. This decision prompted a graduate physics student named Bobby Henderson to draft a somewhat satirical letter of protest. Henderson argued that any legitimate "intelligent design" theory could not be presented as scientific fact without acknowledging a God, which would violate the separation of religion and science in public schools. He presented an argument in which an all-powerful Flying Spaghetti Monster could be logically credited with creating the known universe.
This letter became the basis of a parody religion known as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Adherents of the "faith" claim a "Spaghedeity", the Flying Spaghetti Monster, actually used His Noodly Appendage and other powers to create everything on the planet after drinking heavily. If a scientist should happen to use techniques such as carbon-14 dating to disprove this theory, the invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster would actively skew the results in His favor.
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