Google Trends says we’re neck and neck with Intelligent Design. I had no idea it was this close.
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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. -- Scientific American
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Man and even with the complete lack of news we’re doing extremely well!
You should see if you can combine flying spaghetti monster and fsm and then intelligent design, I think that would tip us over.
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Sweet! were doing so good! Ive got all of my friends constantly on venganza and trying to convert ppl.
peace love and pirates
RAmen
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I think we need to push harder spreading the word, so we can finally rise above intelligent design as the number two theory to evolution.
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Ummm because we’re amazing?
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No, you can’t search for FSM: it means “Finite State Machine” in computer science.
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Arr, me thinks that soon enough, we shall overcome ID, and maybe THEN we will get closer to our goals!
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You know He altered the results with His noodly appendage, right? We will never know what the real situation is…
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Where did that sudden surge come from?
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what does this mean?
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Spread the word my fellow pastafarians! AARRRRGGHHH!!
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Hahaha, that’s pretty cool. Did something crazy happen in November?
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I did one extra and added “FSM” to the bunch, figuring that some people would refer to our Noodly Creator by his abbreviated name. Check it out.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=flying+spaghetti+monster%2C+intelligent+design%2C+FSM&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0
(Dunno if the link will work, oh well!)
RAmen
Yours Truly,
Pope Pixel I
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I think hoping to overtake ID is just silly. Without ID, FSM would have no purpose. Of course there’s going to be extremely tight correlation. I’m sure sooner or later, FSM will be included in at least one or two ID classes, as long as the education program that’s providing it isn’t run by devout extremists.
Christian [that's irony]
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Way cool !
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is there a chance it’s related to Richard Dawkins’s “The God Delusion” taking off ?
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I wonder why searches for both peaked so high in november?
Was there some religious uprising I don’t know about?
RAmen
Peace, Love, and Noodliness
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Ran the trend in google, and I just want to thank the members in Phoenix. The only US City with a higher rate that ID…..you do us and Him proud.
rAmen
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The thing that concerns me is that we seem to be on a greater downward trend then ID, we must pray to the Noodlie one to alter the results.
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I tried it with FSM and noticed many of the FSM results were for random non-pastafarian links.
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The peak occurred because of the new Florida science standards. A few people in Florida don’t like the fact that evolution is actual science and ID came up again. FSM was mentioned in several newspapers as an alternative theory.
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looks like this was the November peak:
http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=65374
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I searched for Pastafarian when I found the word somewhere, so if you count those searches…or Pastafarianism (that’s a word, right?)…
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probably not just that website… most major news papers and websites share stories, and even if its not the exact same words, they often get topics from each other so this (and a pile of similar clones of that article) probably caused the bump… anyway, its a great screenie and it wont take much to pull ahead :D
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Just think what could be accomplished with a little promotion. The xians have the Moron Museum in Petersburg, KY. Maybe we should work out a deal with the Olive Garden.
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i want you guys to know that I bought a stupid blackberry thing and although I can’t figure out how the damn thing works this is the first website I have successfully visited.
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He has blessed your Blackberry!
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There is another clear alternative idea on the source of life, clearly as respectable as creationism and Pastafarianism. I speak, of course, of Incompetent Design, or ID. We can see the marks of an Incompetent Designer everywhere, but we need go no farther than our own bodies and the myriad engineering flaws within. The knees can be permanently blown out with relatively little force if applied at the proper sides, a blow to the jaw can shock the central nervous system and induce unconsciousness, the collar bone is remarkably weak and can become strained through overwork or easily damaged with a good blow, a hit to the back of the head can easily kill someone, and any doctor or fighter can show you the vast array of pressure points in the human body. Asides these irresponsible back doors in the human frame, there are many inherent design flaws, such as waste disposal sharing sexual organs, leading to risk of yeast infection and urinary tract infections, and breathing and eating sharing the pharynx, leading to risk of choking and asphyxiation.
Any software designers who left such glaring flaws in the design of a major product would never work in industry again, and any software testers who let such glaring breaks in the code pass through them would lose their jobs. Clearly, the designer of life must be a bumbling simpleton, worthy of scorn and derision, for leaving such mistakes that seem suggestive of gradual, unsupervised adaptation to the environment of living creatures, accepting changes that are not necessarily optimal but merely workable. Clearly, our Incompetent Designer has not produced good work, and deserves no praise or worship.
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A bumbling simpleton, worthy of scorn and derision? Are you suggesting that George W is our creator?
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re Prophet of an Alternate Model
He is not Incompetent! He was just a little drunk at the time.
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Yeah He might have been quite wasted indeed… nerve endings in teeth and teeth that don’t regenerate!! What a totally stupid idea that was!
I’m thinking though, have you ever played a video game and tried to get a low score on purpose? Let your character on the screen get beat up by the enemy just to show that little bastard what life is like?
Well maybe that’s what he did…
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I love the sense of humor , I’m thinking about starting a religion and calling it The Church of Happy Face Head
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Strange how the spike happened around the low point of the USD and high point of CAD…
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I have made a pirate fish stensol and have spraed it on many things like my schools baner,a garbedge bend the malls frunt dor posters miror at a hall show ect. sry for my spelling im drunk :) long live posta and cheap bear… keep spreading the word and dress as a pirate once a week.
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Actually, considering the fact that many here might also search for ID to keep up on what’s going on (and probably far fewer instances of the Disco/UD crowd searching for us), those numbers can be seen as even more positive than they appear.
OT, is there any chance we could have a ‘Preview’ button for the comments? It would be nice to check to see if my tags are correct before the comment is submitted.
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Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.
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