article_snippet.sent: I have a spiritual connection with the Flying Spaghetti Monster, until they have brain probes how are they going to say I don't? '
article_snippet.sent: Ian Harris began following the religion, along with Ian Harris daughter Astri, 4, after it was set up in the USA in 2005 to protest the teaching of creationism as an alternative to evolution in science classes.
article_snippet.sent: Members claim to believe that an invisible alien made of spaghetti and meatballs created the universe after 'drinking heavily.'
article_snippet.sent: According to its tongue-in-cheek website their 'only dogma ... is the rejection of dogma'.
article_snippet.sent: In 2005, a physics graduate from Oregon State wrote a letter about a 'Flying Spaghetti Monster' as a form of protest against the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to allow the teaching of Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution in public schools.
article_snippet.sent: By professing belief in a supernatural entity composed of pasta and meatballs, Bobby Henderson, 24, called on 'Pastafarianism' to be given equal time in science classrooms alongside Christian theory.
article_snippet.sent: Word rapidly spread and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CFSM) now has thousands of followers, mainly on college campuses and in Europe.
article_snippet.sent: The central tenet of CFSM is that an invisible Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe 'after drinking heavily'.