Product Description

CAN I GET A “RAMEN” FROM THE CONGREGATION?!

Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match–and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.

Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts– dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (“only a theory”), science (“only a lot of theories”), and whether we’re really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!)
See what impressively credentialed top scientists have to say:

“If Intelligent Design is taught in schools, equal time should be given to the FSM theory and the non-FSM theory.”
–Professor Douglas Shaw, Ph.D.

“Do not be hypocritical. Allow equal time for other alternative ‘theories’ like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.”
–J. Simon, Ph.D.

“In my scientific opinion, when comparing the two theories, FSM theory seems to be more valid than classic ID theory.”
–Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D.

Read the book and decide for yourself!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2936 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-28
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From Scientific American
An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny.

EDITORS OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Customer Reviews

Very Poorly put together
Like most everyone who wrote a negative review, I too thought that this book would be something that it was not, original, creative and something like a "gospel" filled with prayers, history and stories about the FSM and Pastafarianism and all it's wonderful pirates and midgets and strippers. This was not the case!

It is however, a series of poorly writen and poorly organized articles making the same repetitive assertions we've been reading since the "Open Letter" was writen.

This book will only make money for Bobby Henderson (Nice letter to the school board Bobby, but what have you done since?) and a publishing company the same way publishers and churches make money off selling christian bibles. Worse still, and most of all, is that this book won't allow bible-thumpers to laugh at the joke or get the point that the FSM was invented to get accross in the first place.

very funny and insightful book
Bobby Henderson has written a hilarious debunking of the 'Intelligent Design' tendency. His letter to the Kansas School Board is a gem and an example of a reasoned and cogent argument for sanity in these matters. His style is one of light hearted fun and logical argument combined, with hilarious results. His effort rivals two other books I've recently read, Christopher Hitchens, 'God is Not Great' and Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion' but is considerably funnier than either. I recommend you read it and share it with friends. And Oh yes, join the 'church of the Flying Spagetti Monster', their web-site will provide hours of fun and giggles.

The Word
After being touched by his Holy Noodle Appendage it is very hard to write an objective review of this amazing Book. It tells the truth and the rest. That should be enough, right?