Flying Spaghetti Monster Creation of Adam

What is the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually mocking?

_{January 1, 2009

Intelligent Design}

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Flying Spaghetti Monster

Creation of Adam

Any questions on what exactly is being mocked?

Hint: The answer is not the science of design detection.

Any questions on how we define Intelligent Design here and elsewhere?

Hint: Look on the sidebar under Definition of Intelligent Design. It’s been there, unchanged, for years. I should know as I put it there years ago. This definition of Intelligent Design was worked out in a collaborative effort by all the usual suspects – fellows of the Discovery Institute.

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Perhaps, we can repay the comment by suggesting these Darwinian Fundamentalists follow the "Blind and Mindless and Chance-choosing Spaghetti Monster" (aka natural selection).IDquest_{January 2, 2009
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This post seems to be in response to something specific, but I can't figure it out. The Definition page was good, though. Thanks.William Wallace_{January 2, 2009
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crandaddy @3. Very nice!StephenB_{January 1, 2009
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I'd like to add that although the FSM replaces God in the picture, I don't think it's intended to be a direct and explicit mockery of the Judeo-Christian concept of God (though it does, conveniently enough, cater to the anti-theistic crowd *wink, wink*). The Darwinist types tend to get design epistemology ass-backwards: empirically-minded as they are, they tend to see it as proceeding inductively from observed "designers" to "designed" products. Since IDists tend to view design science as a fundamentally and irreducibly intentional project that relies on contrasting mind-first explanations against the foil of natural (non-intentional) processes, the ever-faithful opposition (unable or unwilling to think outside their little box) make the "logical" jump to assuming that "mind-first" must mean "God-first."crandaddy_{January 1, 2009
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a lazy, pathetic attempt at mockery made by folks who lack the intellectual capacity to critically engage the ID approach to design science. This is what you do when you don't like something and either can't or don't want to bother critically evaluating it: You smear it.crandaddy_{January 1, 2009
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The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" people are obviously on a campaign against the major, organized religions. To the extent that they pretend they are battling ID, it is simply because almost all ID proponents are members of a major religion, and because ID is where the intellectual action is. So attacking ID is an unavoidable expediency in their anti-religious quest. If ID was endorsed only by a small minority of the population consisting almost entirely of individuals who don't believe in any moralistic religion, then the FSM people would be ambivalent toward ID, or maybe even friendly to it.DarelRex_{January 1, 2009
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