22 Aug

Flying Spaghetti Monsters 101

I’m particularly unhappy with my narrow-minded biology and astro-gut classes in both high school and college. Not only was I woefully unaware of the whole creationism enchilada vs. Big Bang Theory, but I had to learn about Thetans practically on the streets, from Tom Cruise and Kirstie Alley. My daughter will be fortunate in so many ways, not the least of which will be a full-scale tutelage in intelligent design, in which I’m sure she’ll learn how Xenu traversed the Universe to create Earth as we know it, how the slaughter of Ymir the Cow (who licked the primordial ice) begat us, Timaeus of Locres’s account of the beginnings of the Universe and how a supreme being created the world in 7 days ex nihilo. Biology 101 will be a brave new world.OK, ready for those, but now I’d better start reading up on Flying Spaghetti Monsters immediately so I can help with homework.New York Times coverage: The Debate over Darwin