the flying spaghetti monster

In the United States the movement supporting Intelligent Design
is growing. It intends to make schools to teach this new form of Creationism in their biology classes. Creationism and Darwinism would be taught together. Children wouldn't receive any more one single vision of the evolution of species.

The central argument of Intelligent Design is that the biological evolution of species is too complicated to be a random process and that therefore its become the evidence of the existence of an Intelligent creator (aka God) which drives the process.

In the middle of this battle between pro-creationists and darwinists a new group appeared. Its followers require the government to teach at the school also a third evolution theory: the "Pastafarian theory of Evolution".

This theory states that the whole Universe and the evolution process were created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The FSM is an all-powerful creature which happens to be composed of two flying meatballs surrounded by several noodly appendages.

The number of followers of the religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is growing steadily, and so the support for this alternative theory of the Darwinian Evolution. Let's wait and see if it becomes a serious alternative to Darwinism or if the FSM theory is just other of these fashionable movements which disappear in the following season.